{"id":6421,"date":"2009-03-13T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6421"},"modified":"2009-03-13T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:32:21","slug":"aussie-tow-in-legal-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6421","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Tow-In Legal Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/towinjpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/towinjpg.jpeg','popup','width=344,height=426,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/towin-tm.jpg\" height=\"247\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Towin.Jpg\" \/><\/a>The Gold Coast water police think they need some rules to curb &#8220;thrill seeking surfers&#8221; who use jet-skis to tow in to waves. Cyclone Hamish, the one that brought surf for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilverpro.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver Pro<\/a><\/strong> has whipped up some nice tow-in waves and they are being exploited according to a story on Goldcoast.come.au.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most were breaking the law, as tow-in surfing is classified the same as waterskiing which requires a spotter, or observer, on board. All three &#8212; driver, spotter and surfer &#8212; must also be wearing lifejackets. . . . Many of the tow-in surfers seen this week were not wearing life jackets and did not have spotters. . . . Gold Coast water police said several tow-in surfers had been booked for not having a spotter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other feel using waterski rules are kind of silly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Queensland Surfing CEO <strong>Andrew Stark<\/strong> said the legislation that required spotters was dangerous.  . . &#8220;If you are in 10-15 foot waves buzzing around and you&#8217;re towing a guy, it just doesn&#8217;t make sense to have a spotter on the back. . . &#8220;It&#8217;s not in the best practice rules of it. That&#8217;s why the whole thing needs an overhaul.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems like the penalties of screwing up in big surf are high enough without the government getting involved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2009\/03\/14\/59201_gold-coast-news.html\">Goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gold Coast water police think they need some rules to curb &#8220;thrill seeking surfers&#8221; who use jet-skis to tow in to waves. Cyclone Hamish, the one that brought surf for the Quiksilver Pro has whipped up some nice tow-in waves and they are being exploited according to a story on Goldcoast.come.au. Most were breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6422,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}