Just throwing this out there, wondering what others think of the situation, or get frustrated like I do?
It happens to be a bit as I like to kite just off the pack down at brighton, scarbs or trigg, anywhere really.
I’ll be on a peak to myself having a ball away from other kiters (and no where near any surfers), when either one surfer or a small group will appear out of the dunes and head towards where I am wave kiting. When I see them I make sure I ride all the way in so they see me riding the peak before they head out and hopefully decide to surf elsewhere.
99% of the time they paddle straight out where I am kiting, decent surfers don’t really drift downwind and I am forced to move on. Usually meaning moving downwind into the kiting pack or moving upwind a lot and inevitably, after riding wave downwind, back on the surfers.
Frustrates me - I am a surfer as well but common sense says (to me) not to paddle out where a kiter or poley is riding… but the unwritten kiting rules say that surfers have the right of way...?
Any thoughts?
Chances are you have gone out where there is the hint of a bank giving the waves some shape (and why wouldn't you)? I'm guessing that this is what has attracted the surfers to where you are, rather than you being there. Probably a bit frustrating for you, but given how much easier it is for you to get onto waves, and how you can probably have more fun at a worse bank than the surfers can, I can see why they'd head out where you are and reckon it's probably reasonable to expect you to move on.
Besides, anyone keen enough to surf a Perth beachie in 12+ knots deserves all the waves they can get!!
Wear your surfer hat for a moment....
Surfers do not understand that kiters must stay away. They see a bank, and they share it.
Unfortunately, we have to roll with it. Frustrating as hell.
We all have a right to be there. just don't get too close to them. Chances are when it's windy they won't be able to hold their position very long anyway.
When I have easy access to 5 km of coastline and another 200 waves on the cards before the end of the session, I don't mind moving on and leaving them any pic they choose
Surf is never crowded when there is enough wind for us to be out there anyway
Yup, bad attitude i agree but i think the problems we face and will in the future will come from someone kiting through the flags or nutting a rich beach walker trying a handle pass to close to the shore rather than taking the lions share from fellow wave hunters...Then I am Goldy Born and bred so hassleing is all I know...
After a course of chemo cream to eliminate sunspots I will be wearing a hat. Anybody who takes that as an invitation to make a pass runs his own risk
ok, ok fine then i will.. Dont want to be ripping off any little kids faces now do I
