Also rogue logs!
Do you have a vested interest in the ski vs. paddle debate? Are you a bold jetski pilot, thrilling your friends with trips out to the big stuff? Are you a traditionalist who would rather give up surfing altogether rather than fill the air with an exhaust-laden whine?
I am neither but a new clash in my home state of Oregon makes me want to choose sides.
Nelscott Reef, directly west from Salem, is Oregon’s premier big wave even featuring a big wave contest but lately its also a battlefield. And let us turn to the Newport Times for more.
Surfing will take the spotlight at a city council meeting Monday, Jan. 28, where big-wave promoter John Forse intends to lodge a complaint against rival surfers over another dangerous incident at Nelscott Reef.
Forse released a photograph this week of a chilling encounter between a jet ski and a surfer that shows them on a collision path. No injuries occurred as the 750-pound watercraft veered away at the last moment. Forse said the incident occurred about a week ago during non-contest conditions.
“The jet-ski was going 30 to 35 mph,” claimed Forse, saying state marine laws forbid motorized boats from straying within 100 feet of surfers. “It’s like driving a boat through a group of swimmers.”
Meanwhile, Oregon State Police say they are monitoring the situation, which falls into their jurisdiction.
State Trooper Scott Severson stated, “Jet skiiers will be cited if appropriate, and we will shut down (any contests) if operations are unsafe.”
The newly-documented encounter comes in the wake of another incident that occurred during a Nov. 29, 2017, big wave contest where several onlookers were struck and briefly pinned by a log that swept onto the beach.
Forse, who founded big-wave surfing at the reef and has held an annual contest there since 2004, claimed the city contributed to the unsafe situation by issuing a license to a rival group that was fined in municipal court as a result of the 2017 beach accident.
Well that got very exciting at the end. The log that pinned onlookers during the event? A rival group of fans? What sort of log was it? Maybe one of Erik Logan’s @infinity_sup #blurrV2?
I’ll get to the bottom of it.
Ah good shit! Enjoy!!
You alive Twillsy?
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Well, when you put it that way…
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If you’ve never towed in, surfed 30ft waves or personally own a ski write your uneducated comments here
It was only 10ft. Why tow in? Wait till it’s 30+.
Perhaps the paddle crew should be permitted to carry small arms & could deliver frontier justice should the skis come within 100 feet? It is Oregan after all.
What a Darwinistic moment in Surfing ! Who would have thought that Billy Ray Cyrus on the Panty Dropper ( suck that Royal Navy ! Beagle …. poofty pommy name for a research vessel with holy calamity scream insanity Fitzroy at the helm . ) would be there to capture it for his doctoral thesis On the Oregon of the Species by Means of Natural Selection .
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I like that old Shakespearean clown Falstaff ! Sadly enough these type of characters disappeared mysteriously from the theatre during the « Age Classique « of Racine and Corneille , and was of major importance to Michel Foucault in his thesis « Folie et déraison. Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique « .
Do you think it’s possible with a damn good maritime lawyer to constitute a SUP as a “motorized boat” that has to stay 100 feet away from surfers?
Allegedly “paddle assist” is a form of propelled craft that must give way to surfers and swimmers… bring in the water cops
You’re always startin’ shit! Stupid hat. Love from Elo
Jazz
Always be sided by the group with yellow beanies!
They’re savage and violents!
Is that the wrong pic? Looks like a SUP ready to launch.
I studied it very very closely and it does indeed look like a rotund man taking off on a SUP.
Ya that’s no ski…but WTF why take it to the authorities…settle this thing together. We as individuals need to realize that authorities are not serving our freedom.
Viva la yellow caps
Because internet surfers like the illusion of being outsiders and rebels but have sadly devolved into claiming freedom while invoking the authorities at the slightest ripple of discomfort or challenge. For examples see our yellow hat boy, the delicious irony of crying about black ball bans while calling for SUP and foil bans, asking the gov to kill all sharks within 100 miles of a beach,etc. We could go on but someone would ask the mods to ban us.
Somewhere the ink on Dora’s half finished checks runs from tear stains. But from here I can’t tell if he’s laughing or crying.
Yeah, I guess its sorta obvious. Now if it was the jetski Curly Mullet Dude? Woo, now thats a keeper pic.
The guy at the bottom of the wave is being towed in… ski is hidden by wave in the foreground
My eyes are not what they used to be but I can see the head of the jet ski driver and it looks like the surfer in blue is still holding on to the rope ?
That’s what I see… though to be honest I am a few whiskeys deep. What were we talking about?
Spanish Rioja glass 3 …..Zinc in the cells , god bless it , metabolizes alcohol …….. No fucking idea . Like Kauai ,everyone knows there are no waves in Oregon !
True… well except for that river wave Gerry Lopez likes to surf
I can’t believe Vans put that spot in the Grave…… or their Graves’ in that spot ?