Please get onto this peoples, if this bill passes we will be sitting on the beach at Kanaha in July watching fat americans swim in the ocean, while epic sailing conditions continue out on the reefs!
Read this link to Giampaolos blog as well, sums it up way better than I could!
mauisurfreport.blogspot.com/
Urgent Information
This STATE of HAWAII bill will kill the windsurf business and could shut down sailing from our beaches, private land or public! (as if Vacation rentals wasn't bad enough!)
Please write a simple e-mail stating you oppose it.
Testimony may be emailed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Legislature's Public Access Room at [email protected]. Please indicate to which committee the testimony is being submitted and the date and time of the hearing.
COMMITTEE ON WATER AND LAND
DATE: Friday, February 15, 2008
TIME: 2:45 p.m.
From all i've heard of the place i have no desire to go there...BUT BEWARE AUSTRALIA!!!!!! These sorts of rules comming to a beach near you
Slowly but surely your freedoms are being eroded.The "NO ...." and "By order of ...." signs are getting more and more plentyfull....
Slowly but surely your freedoms are being eroded.The "NO ...." and "By order of ...." signs are getting more and more plentyfull....
Spent two weeks there in July '06. Was the best holiday I have ever had. Such great place to sail! Total windsurfing paradise... Heaps of wind, sunshine, tropical blue water and pretty friendly locals. Would be such a shame to lose this spot.
Stribo: Agree with the increasing proliferation of DON'T signs. It's actually quite ironic. We Australian's regard ourselves as so laid back, in reality we are nearly one of the most rule driven countries on the planet. Shame really.
Not sure about this one. 200 feet is 61 metres. When I sail I don't like it when Kiters pop jumps upwind of me. I can imagine if I was a swimmer I'd be even less enthused. But I have never been to Maui so have no idea how it would work in practice. I suppose it wouldn't take too many swimmer/surfers at a beach to exclude Kites and Sail boarders completely.
"Bizarre" would be an understatement if windsurfing was effectively banned on Maui - the world's greatest windsurfing destination, so I'm very skeptical that this would actually happen.
Maui has endless beautiful, protected swimming beaches, so why would anyone want to prevent sailing at Kanaha in favour of swimming? Who wants to swim at a beach where the wind blows 30 odd knots for 300+ days per year??
That's without considering that there are no hotels and very few houses anywhere near it, and there are aircraft screaming overhead every five minutes.
To the swimmers I say - "Ka'anapali's over there!"
Slowly but surely your freedoms are being eroded.The "NO ...." and "By order of ...." signs are getting more and more plentyfull....
I'm most bumbed off about not being able to rent our great house at sprecks this year. Sounds just like Manly council . Maui the retirement village!!!!
never ceases to amaze me, the inteligence of politicians. especially over there. I wonder if those same peanut pollies ever look up the coast around Kanaha and realise that each one of those "dangerous" sails and kites each brings $5000US to the maui economy each year. I wouldnt be surprised if they pass the bill, especially after what I saw there last year, nothing would surprise me.
I can't seem to open the original link about whatever's going on in Maui.
I say, chaps, could one of you please paste the text on here?
This hardly surprising for the US, apparently in Hawaii you can be fined if you dont own a boat, check out the other parts to this vid for other crazy laws they have
Spotty, I have checked with my US based colleagues, and apparently it is permissable to not own a boat, so long as you are carrying a gun...
I would not be surprised if the politicians on Oahu just wanted to get their hands on some cheap property after the windsurfing industry collapses. After all the only people to miss this industry is windsurfers.
What crap, I was in Maui also in 2006, what a great place. The place is a buzz.
I was surfing the net on Friday and could not believe what I was reading on maui surf report site.
Windsurfing needs Maui and we need it.
aparently the verdict has been deffered. Hasnt been thrown out but they had enough response to the bill that they are reconsidering it. Hopefully sanity will prevail
Unfortunately there is no indication of when it is to be deferred until; hopefully at least until after July!
if anyone is intersted they can check the footage of the hearing at www.mauiwindsurfing.net . Interesting thing was that the whole thing was caused by one person asking the local mp to propose the bill!?! Luckily the powers that be received the thousands of emails in protest, and decided to can it. Reinstates my faith in democracy
I can't open the link.
Could...somebody...please...paste...the...original...article...here...so...I...can...read ...it?
Pretty please with an Ezzy on top?
