2 kiters past rotto

Yesterday I was laxing on a boat in Geordie Bay at Rotto and low & behold 2 kiters came past the bay about 3 km's north of the island in line with the bay!

Who were you? Hope you had a boat with you cause that's crazy out that far without support in a SW!!

Depends if they had the right safety gear

There's an old guy from trigg who often kites from Freo to Rotto, gets wasted at the pub and then kites home. Sounds like he has a friend these days.

Whole bunch of us here hope they kept heading west.








UNLESS it was Dusta and Weta, they are cool dudes who bought me drinks. Hic

Yeah, Sometimes kite to Rotto, only if its maxing around 25knots, SSW.
I grab a beer and a Quokka, and then head home.

There pritty easy to catch and they fit nicely into my backpack where I keep my EPIRB.

yeah but they were on 10M kites

OMG......... Did he make a pass at you phil

ha ha classic!!!
Sorry Phil but is was funny enough for me to get beer on the keyboard.

Andy you need to be a bit more careful what you write on here, some people may just be gullible enough to believe you.
The links you showed do not exempt anything with the exception that kayakers can wear a PFD2.

Have a read on the wa kayakers link you sent. The first paragraph says
" The information in these guidelines is of a general nature only and is not intended to be relied upon"

This is like a cycling club having their own rules, it does not mean that just because you comply with the cycling clubs rules that you can ignore all other road rules with the justification that your bike is not registered.

Andy, are you also aware that even if you go kayaking in a canoe longer than 3.75m and have all the safety gear under the sun with you, a marine chart, a compass and navigational aid, the port of Fremantle still specifically prohibit you from canoeing across the shipping lanes.

The L2L event would have to apply for special exemptions from these regulations from the DPI and the Fremantle Port Authority and show how they can still run the event safely.

Im not saying its not a cool thing to do, a few years ago I would have probably considered the crossing, but be aware it is illegal, and if you ever need to use any of your vast amount of safety gear to get rescued, you can bet the water police will be pressing charges, followed by a lot of bad publicity for kitesurfing.

All good.

But i will admit when I'm wrong....kiters under WA marine law not classifed as kayakers... Or for that matter not even as paddlers, non-motorised vessels, non registered vessels or registered vessel... For the moment that is :)