Sailing With Gold coast crew yesterday and a jet boat (jet boat extreme goldcoast,yellow boat red writing) lined up George from about 70 meters aways ,tried to turn at last minute and missed judge the stupid act and near ran the man over. George has bruises and damage his kit. The driver stopped to check on George and collect details and the incident is being reported. Accidents happen but I personally have seen this same operator speed closer then the required 60mtrs spraying windsurfers and kiters and coming back for a laugh. usually while dredging. If you or anyone has seen or experienced this behaviour let us know. Its just dangerous and something might be able to be done about it. All the other commercial jet boats don't seem to be a problem.

Yes, as we understand the Broadwater is less than ideal for the Jet Boaters business model as it is too busier of a waterway with a multitude of all types of water users and water vessels or craft as opposed to the relatively under used fiord type river systems in New Zealand where this thrill seeker business model was born. If they the Jet Boat Tour Operators were allowed to go on with this type of behaviour on our roadways comparatively speaking, they would be considered as HOONS! and have there vehicles impounded by the Authorities or destroyed on repeat offending and in additions to this penalties and/or cancellation of their licences. Maybe the Authorities need to wake up and start taking some action about these guys before one of us are killed or badly maimed by them

It's either a territorial thing or another red neck qld'er with **** for brains!

No consideration is the problem up here from my experience. And too many ego's
and girly tats

Take your info to '' A current affair ''
Those jet boats are all over the place !
Good luck with your due compensation ;-]

KiteBob said..
This is a bit nuts to here about! I'm glad that he wasn't badly hurt, sounds like it could have been much worse.
I have got to say you guys have to be careful:

upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

Defamation is a pretty serious matter if he takes this to court

You join Seabreeze today just to post on this thread? So I'll ask the obvious question. Was it you?

Kamikuza said..
How is this not a criminal case?

Actually it is a criminal case.

Quote:
To prove this crime, the prosecution must prove the following 5 elements beyond reasonable doubt:

One - the accused committed the conduct alleged in the presentment.
Two - the accused committed that conduct voluntarily.
Three - that conduct endangered another person’s life.
Four - the accused acted recklessly.
Five - the accused acted without lawful authority or excuse.

As this type of the behavior is around the Gold Coast for number of years and there are numerous witnesses as well as victims, the prosecution should not be that much challenging.

pretty sure running someone over with a boat in front of their mates is self defamation, warning the wider community of the potential risk to safety is a public service

Evidence .follow the forum on windsurf qld.