Hero surfers

I'm thinking a 20+ knot onshore wind brings them out of the wood work? I've encountered a couple of late whilst out kiting. Surely all the half decent surfers would be elsewhere in these conditions. Just because surfing has been around longer, doesn't mean you own the ocean w@nker. Apparently the wide berth I gave them wasn't enough an called for pointing and shouting. I enjoyed my run all the same.

At my local, there's a swimmer who wants to make a point. He'll swim right through our 50m wide line. You see him enter the water at one side, swim out between 100 to 300m, swim across, and then swim back to shore and get out. He has no coloured hat to see him and he is very hard to see. I was sailing with a mate a few years ago, and the same guy told him to "F*** Off, go do that s*** out there. This is a swimmers beach" when he tacked too close to him. So yeah, they are out there.

Each year and each session during summer, I always look out for him. My inside gybes are effected, because I have one eye on the water so I don't run over him. I'm not keen on paying for his injures for the rest of my life because he wants to be a w***er (and ban windsurfing at Semaphore)

^^^ Or even take it up a notch and windsurf.

Are they Asian surfers?
We get people here who do that sort of thing, no matter what you're doing...

Playing street hockey in a huge carpark at the local park, at the far end away from everyone else? Some ass will ride his bike over and stop in the middle of your pitch.
Kiteboarding on the ONLY beach around the giant lake that's safe enough to launch and land? Someone's going to bring their kids down - not to the swimming beaches just down the road, but to your beach AND park themselves right in the middle of all your kites, not even bothering with the empty sand 100m to their left.
Landboarding at a different park? You guessed it, someone's going to come and play baseball right on top of you kite lines.
Humped your gear 500m away from the beach to get out of everyone's way? Yeah, here comes Fisherf**k to cast lines right where you're about to ride.
My fav though is still the guy with the powered-paraglider, setting up behind the kites and windsurfers, then trying to launch himself between the palm trees, over the gear, over the people on the beach and not tripping down the stairs. He nearly collided with all the above AND wrapped his wing in the power lines before he actually got off the ground. Naturally, the wide open spaces just 50m either side of that space was too far away

I can't decide if it's just congenital selfishness or absolute lack of consideration of the surroundings...

From all the ocean users besides kiters please accept our apologies, didn't realize you were the most important group of people and that your fun comes first and everyone else can **** off..

Thanks for the heads up...

I enjoy the arvo howling onshore surf but. The beginner's are gone, the surfschools have wrapped up and generally the wind whips up enough shape in the waves as opposed to glassy closeouts at Perths most popular beach. Have had a few kiters kite pretty close to me but they generally stay their way as I do mine. How I see it, if we're all that keen to surf when it's over 20knts, I can respect them for their passion.

Yeah but your local is a million degrees multigrade,..in the shade,.. all day!

I ran one over a few weeks back,

It's not like I can just pull a handrake on my raceboard.

If you see them limping heavily up the beach, then you know they are semi ok.