And you can invest! A minimum $98,000 to get in the game…
Earlier today, the press man from Surf Lakes, Wayne Dart, emailed photos of the Occy and Barton Lynch endorsed wavepool, currently under construction in North Queensland.
As was reported one year ago, and according to the then Memorandum, Surf Lakes costs half the price of Wavegarden’s new tank The Cove to build (Fifteen mill instead of thirty), creates more than double the weekly revenue of The Cove and two hundred times more than Slater’s pool (Six hundred gees versus two fifty k and three gees), creates 2400 waves per hour vs 1000 (The Cove), dwarfing estimates of fifteen for Slater’s pool.
Oowee. Etc.
Unlike American Wave Machines (Waco, Typhoon Lagoon, Canary Islands) which uses air pressure, Surf Ranch and Wavegarden, which use a sled and foil, Surf Lakes use a giant plunger.
The device goes up and down to create a circular ring of waves, like the concentric rings created when you throw a stone into a pool. You’ll get a throwing peak takeoff, with a wave that loses size rapidly after the initial takeoff.
Surf Lakes say their “main goal is to be able to commission the demo site by mid-July. However, there are some things that are out of our control such as the weather.”
Other news?
“We have now received over 90 inbound licensing enquiries. We expect to sign the first licensee, which will either be from Australia or the USA, in the coming weeks. This represents first revenue for our company.”
Here’s how it’s looking thus far (captions by Surf Lakes).
Excited?
Investors are still being sought, if you’re that way inclined although the minimum investment is $98,000 and you must be a “sophisticated investor.” That means y’gotta have two-and-a-half mill in assets and earn a minimum of 250,000 a year.
Website says this pool is only 150mx200m. Within that area they expect to have 8 waves ridden at once, 4 lefts and 4 rights. Works out to be 2400 an hour, 40 a minute, over 8 breaks, 5 people on each break minimum to ride every wave. Their graphics show each left and right break towards each other. In that size pool each ride is max 80m. 5 waves a minute is a period of 12 seconds.
So, for every wave to be ridden that means there is a line of 10 people paddling up the middle of each break with 1 catching a wave every 12 seconds and ideally one finishing a wave at the same time, if every surfer is competent and understand the logistics. Account for learners, morons, people falling on take offs, mid wave, etc etc, this leaves the sum total as a giant fucking cluster fuck of floating fibre glass and bodies. How can it go any other way unless they don’t ever allow that many people in the pool? Keep in mind that is the minimum amount to have every wave caught if everything works perfectly. I suspect they would plan to have more than 40 paying customers an hour.
Advanced analysis of the ancient trachytic-volcanic plugs in photos 1 and 3 places the ‘secret’ location somewhere between Julia Creek and Taldora.
Sorry Australia, nice try. We’ve got King Shit making sure we stay on top of the grifty mountain.
I think the tower will be a pyramid design, creating perfect Ponzi peaks..
anyone who believes this absurd “weekly revenue potential” formula deserves to be fleeced.
as we all know, the KS wave is NOT open to the public. so this $5/wave x 10 hours/day nonsense is a non-starter.
but lets see how it works? why the fuck not??
Didn’t Darty work for a stick mag back in the day?
Maybe they could build one for the American Military working in the Australian Desert at Pine Gap . ( like an Oz version of China Beach ) ?Just don’t tell anyone !
I’m sure they would take coin from anyone except for the pesky Australian Corporations Law. By only allowing “sophisticated investors” to invest they don’t need all the normal disclosure required for unsophisticated cunts like you (and me)!
http://www.afr.com/personal…
Investing in wavepools makes crypto look like a nice stable long term investment.
Correction: Surf Lakes has not generated any revenue whatsoever from a user of any kind.
Wavegarden pools have, the Waco thing has, the KSWC surely the hell has, but Surf Lakes? Not a cent. It’s all expenditure.
Looks more like a clandestine nuclear programme to me.
Watch the wave glut unfold before our very eyes and it’ll be gtf out of the ocean, kooks!
Investors?
Possibly You!
prestige worldwide prestige worldwide prestige worldwide
All eco friendly, of course. Fuck these wave tub pricks. Money grabbing carpet baggers. NO-ONE involved has any cred. You sign up and instantly you are part of the FUCKWIT club. No exceptions.
Thinking type – can see things from many sides – far from black and white thinker!
first of all, where is the fun in that? that is not how a blood feud happens, dearie.
second: all the excuses in the world don’t counter the fact these are massively expensive projects that take huge amounts of energy to run and are in no way necessary, except to generate a profit for a few through exploiting what are in effect finite resources (i call bs on the greenwashing) and social divisions (who can afford to surf now or not). These are massively polluting projects – construction, day-to-day operations, patronage, etc. Full stop.
You can push all the ‘nuanced’ rhetoric you want … yada will help this group blah will contribute this to local economy etc … yet not one shred of evidence (other than puff PR) to-date has been provided for these claims.
Imagine if the same investment went into local surf communities, water quality, already existing surf breaks, protecting surf zones, etc.
Nah, we need goddamn gated communities to ‘grow surfing’ and ‘performance’. Fuck that. It’s disgusting.
I am not a purist by any stretch of the imagination, but this bandwagon has to and should be called to account.
Other than complaining about how it feels to go surfing in a tub no critique of the narratives about surfing or exploitative structures (social , economic, and environmental) these things celebrate and perpetuate has been forthcoming.
I am not looking for such at BG.
But I’m going to call a spade a spade.
if it walks like duck and shits like a duck, it’s a duck, m8.
yeah baby!
Wait for the next step: trying to discourage people from surfing in the ocean. That is going to feel like being smeared in human shit.
Well your bother is defiantly on the snake oil salesman bandwagon with the shark shield bullshit and unfortunately for him, all the sneaky back room media manipulation that is going on to get the government onboard and try and make them mandatory , all by talking up the shark scare shit.
Greed will turn this all this on its head back to the days when we had to licence our surfboards.
Carl Marx could write an entire chaper on surf capitalism eating its self.
my “bother” lol
This I’ve posted this before, but their wave producing technology is sort of like this.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
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Sam Kinison.
Sorry? That’s the screamy guy isn’t it? What about him?
His Richard Simmons joke.
Ah sorry. No idea. I was trying to imitate the onomatopoeia noise/action of the above machine.
Obviously poorly since only one person updinged it.
Explains why Barton got the arse from the WSL broadcast. Petty dicks.
Now that’s a money pit
haemorrhaging more money than the family pet horse…
Ponzi scheme awating suckers, it will also be the final nail in the coffin regards the loss of credibility for BL and Occ
Truth
Rockhampton. What the fuck are they thinking. No surfers live there. Need to factor in cost of flights and accommodation.
Not exactly a bunch of surfers living in Austin or Waco,Texas or the Central Valley of California, but that works for them for now. Each needed some open space and cheap land.
I hear Kalgoorlie might be available for the next pool.
You are improving my understanding of Aussie geography one step at a time. Anyplace that has a Super Pit, has to be a great spot for a wave pool.
For those like me who have (had) no idea what the hell we are talking about click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
did my last year high school there, there are more surfers than you think.
more waves than you think too.
Enough surfers living there to keep this thing going you reckon?
nah, they’ll need to fifo them
It says the weekly Revenue potential is $250,000, not sure how many people you have to squeeze in there to get that much, but it doesn’t sound plausible.
As opposed to surf ranch at $3,000. Where did those figures come from? I read that surf ranch rents out for $50,000 per day and is booked out.