Agro wind surfer charging at my gf

don't think you mention what he actually said by way of abuse ? from experience pretty hard to hear what someone is saying at 25knots with wind in your ears. nonetheless.....

have sailed in the pond heaps and a) almost killed a kiter because he jumped in front of me without looking when i was down wind of him. had to crash bail. when he realised what happened, he said " i didn't see you". He didn't even look ! b) almost got thumped by a kiter who lost his kite - result - crash bail again to avoid injury. Did I abuse either party, no, but certainly made my displeasure obvious without being rude.

It is a shame your GF got the rough end of the pineapple from this guy and not suggesting she was in the wrong. However, with the increasing amount of kiters in the pond, they need to (and many are not), conscious of the amount of room they take up and boosting a 30m jump may not always be the best course of action for those (kites and poles) sailing down wind of you ! I am yet to see a kiter in that situation ever acknowledge that they made a gross error of judgement by putting those around them at risk.

^ Good humble response from a harsh start, hope all goes well and good winds to you and the gf

Everyone at Safety Bay seemed pretty chilled and smiley today

I was there today and had a great time. I was one of the first in the water (2pm) and when I left around 5 pm there were max 10 windsurfers in the whole area. One of the quietest windy days for windsurfing in Pond for a long time. In the meantime the place was packed with kites.

We all need to watch out for everyone, I lost count how many times I had to change course/bail/crash etc to avoid issues with both Windsurfers and Kiters. I never ever yelled anyone in 20 years in the sport.

We all need to change course (both Windsurfers ans Kiters) in the shallower downwind area inside the pond (otherwise we would run aground), however lots of kiters use that ''dead end'' as a jumping area which is not recommended for obvious reasons.

Chill out, relax, sail well and with common sense there is room for everyone.

The poley sounds like a bit of a douche, but then so do you for wanting to "meet up" with him. Sailing close to her and yelling abuse is perhaps out of order, but you don't know the circumstances. You're naturally going to take your gf's side in this and assume she did nothing wrong, but maybe she did. Maybe she's completely unaware of what she did wrong. I was windsurfing up at Lano in pretty strong conditions came flying in and went to gybe then just caught sight of some Euro chick who came flying back into the beach at some obscure angle and almost collided with me. I jumped off and narrowly avoided being collected at 35km/hr+ - that would have been trashed gear + hospital. She was completely oblivious to what she'd done and was merrily waving to her boyfriend on the beach and I let loose with a few expletives, primarily because I had just shat myself and also because of her careless attitude. I don't give a @h!t if someone drops in on me or gets too close, but I do care about having my board/sail/legs broken. Fast forward an hour and I'm on the beach de-rigging and I can see her and her b/f plus mates glaring at me and so I wander over, apologise for my outburst, but then explain what she did. She was completely unaware, apologised and all was good. So perhaps your g/f unwittingly did something that almost injured the poley?

Irrespectively she sounds like a strong, independent woman, this isn't the 1950s, she doesn't need you to fight her battles for her. If she's going to windsurf, surf, kite etc you both need to expect that if she fücks up, people are entitled to give her a spray, especially if someones health is threatened. If neither of you can cope with this, then she should take up netball or some other girly sport. I will reiterate sailing close to her and risking a collision is not cool, but if I were her, I'd assume I'd made a mistake and get over it.

A table mounted in the rigging areas showing the navigational rules in pictures could be beneficial ?

Just let it go everyone.
Russ has had his rant, had some explanations and some satisfaction and generously apologised.
end of story.

If you are going to use this thread to troll and stir up discontent then you are no better than either of the agro people mentioned.


There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.


“Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”

So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all...

While all this fighting is going could you all keep a lookout for my mast I left at the beach on wednesday 3rd feb? Its an ezzy 430 carbon mast rdm. I left it near the tap and shower in the windsurfing rigging area at the pond close ro bent street jetty.
I will be wearing my new helmet design in the pond in future in case I am mistaken for the guy thay may (or may not) have frightened somebodys girlfriend...