Seeing as increasing numbers of people are heading out on to (or into) the water following their winter hibernation it seems that some people need a gentle reminder to look behind them before they gybe.

Please do it - I've seen a few near misses over the last couple of weeks and imagine that getting a board up the ass is probably quite painful if you do get hit.

This is me being nice. If I wanted to be nasty I'd post something in the teabagger forum[}:)]

Good call.

Also, if you're gybing right behind me half expect me to come to a sudden halt right in front of you

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BTW its arse not ass. An ass is a donkey.

Maybe it was just a warning to all those donkeys that you see splashing around in the water

Crowded sailing is like flying with a flock of pigeons. Pigeons don't shout "starboard". They all tack and gybe together. What's their secret?

nasty said...

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...getting a board up the ass is probably quite painful if you do get hit.

The advantage of the new wider boards - they won't fit up anybody's @$$!

Some of those older custom shortboards would go in one end and out the other!!

I'm with you on this thread - on Sunday some guy tried to get himself hurt by gybing right across me. He bailed, came to the surface - "sorry mate - thought you were going the other way". Got the apology, everything ended happily.

In another incident, as I was derigging, some bloke upwind of me turned his back on his unattached rig. The wind got under it, and it took off over him before landing harmlessly. He then (unbelievably) wandered around for a bit, leaving the rig still unattached to anything, still fully exposed to the wind AND with the battens in the perfect position for getting lift, AND still upwind of me!

He wandered off to the car (a couple of minute walk), which made me think that maybe it wasn't his rig after all... I grabbed it and put it behind some shelter and popped the battens before it took my head off. Same bloke comes back 5 minutes later, grabs the rig and heads off to the water. I had a polite word explaining that what he'd just done was VERY uncool... (I was very nice about it though).

Honestly - that's the kind of thing I expect from a newbie kiter, not an apparently competent windsurfer.

Rant over.

NotWal said...

Crowded sailing is like flying with a flock of pigeons. Pigeons don't shout "starboard".

geeze that made me laugh..but for different reasons

man if you guys were old farts like me,
you would be making jokes about how for a nautical forum like this shouldnt that be a flock of seagulls
and they would shout "I Ran [so far away]"

They all tack and gybe together. What's their secret?

their secret...ummmmm....musical timing?




then we could all laugh and remember big hair and synth music and say things like
........oh dont you mean a flock of hairdressers,...

if you watch this video..note the synth..I used to play one of them around Sydney venues..I'm sure its A Roland Sh 101 a monophonic synth..one note at a time yet he is playing it as a polyphonic..5 finger chords..gee that made me laugh too

my god I used to wear one of those shirts...lucky I was in a Ska / rock band a bit more street cred in Sydney.

see made ya look....couldnt help yourself

now after diverting your thread back to the normal programming.

flock of pidgeons..hee hee...seagulls ha haa... there coming to take me away...

great my first post of the summer and it makes no sense. hee hee haa haa hoo hoo

edit..sh@t eh..my link actually comes up as purty picture..wow..what will they think of next..didnt mean it to be that in your face..stuff it enjoy.....I'm weird.

But the donkey might be a mule?

DavMen said...

Same goes the other way to.

Don't sail to close to others. Be aware that if you are sailing close to another sailor and just on their leeward side and not passing them (maintaining same speed), you are stopping them from initiating a gybe - not every boby wants to sail of into the horizon.[}:)]

So it goes both ways! Be thoughtful ans awareof all!

with you DavMen, last night some super star (in a red helmet) very nearly took me clean out with his super cool gybe. No looking, no sorry, no nothing. Just because you can gybe like a king and make us learners look like S@#T there is no real need to scare the crap out of us ..... yes I am crap at sailing and can't gybe to save my own A@#, heck....I am sure you can see that from a mile off.... but I am giving it a go and one day will have it nailed. Until then sorry for being in the way on occasion... if your so dam flash go around or give us some room....... I am sure you were there once to. Cast your thoughts back once in a while.
Give the plebs a chance and some room! [}:)]

Rant over might head to the water now!