The company says it is has "successful(ly)…achieved wave face heights of 1.8m (6ft). Adjustments to reach 2.4m (8ft) are being made in the coming months."
Four days ago, we reported, or more accurately cribbed an Instagram post, that Surf Lakes had fixed the busted plunger at its central Queensland wavepool and had recommenced testing.
The Occy and Barton Lynch-endorsed Surf Lakes is a a full-sized demonstration wavepool located midway between the towns of Yeppoon and Rockhampton and uses a giant plunger to create waves, unlike the sled-foil combo of the Slater pool and the air pressure game of American Wave Machines.
The waves at its initial reveal were very small (one-to-two feet, with the plunger working at forty percent capacity), very pretty and green (Surf Lakes uses tap water) and the background to the pool is artist’s impression-perfect mountains and cattle farms.
This ain’t dirty ol Lemoore or cult-crazy Waco although the North Queensland sunset is juxtaposed expertly with machinery so dystopian one expects there to be a large clock somewhere striking thirteen.
Now, the company says it is has “successful(ly) run sets of 4 consecutive waves, and achieved wave face heights of 1.8m (6ft). Adjustments to reach 2.4m (8ft) are being made in the coming months.”
Bullish numbers.
One might ask, is this Surfline‘s version of eight feet, three-feet or so by the regular measure, or the Hawaiian method which would make it four-times overhead?
The company expects its testing to be complete by the end of 2019 with licensees ready to scoop up the technology shortly thereafter.
Examine latest photos here.
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Don’t believe the hype!!!
Nothing to show scale looks like a lego man barrel
Derek go home to Victory Mansions & have a Victory Gin – 8ft & wavepool in the same sentence needs to go down the memory hole!
“machinery so dystopian one expects there to be a large clock somewhere striking thirteen.”
Standing ovation DR.
Am I the only one who read “bullish numbers” as “bullshit numbers”?
as we like to say “pics / video or it didn’t happen”
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Take the plunge (r)
worst rollout in the history of rollouts.
apparently the pin they rolled out with buckled 40% into the rolling and they’ve have to fabricate a new pin that will roll messages that go double over our heads.
Yep. I still think they should have kept their mouth shut until they had a decent edit and proof of concept. Otherwise there is only downside.
at least it is more than an artists impression.
You would think they would put a bit more effort into the landscaping at the very least.
Medina style?
8 foot Hawaiian?Or 8 foot Lenmorian?
I feel sorry for Yepoon, but the Chinese already did it.
Every right-hand barrel that small and sucky I’ve paddled into has pitched me head first into the flats. I don’t have the speed or agility to contort myself into a foetus position on my backhand and get my rail/fins to hold in the half millisecond it would offer. This wavepool technology can lick my balls/anus/perineum.
Donchoo give it away for free, hun.
You can make good money offering that.
Not to mention the plunging rusty doughnut.
YEP Poon Tangs Clothing has just announced J Pout is there new Ambassador , so long Rip Tear Lacerate , hello balls anus perinium …..Can you lick it ?
“wan-fa” “cos if it wan-fa that bit of skin between the first and second hole her guts would just drop out.
Kerr wan Pha ?
herr Kerr wan pha
Das ist besser .
Sounds like a job for the Red Dwarf’s Arnold Judas Rimmer ….. ?
The goods news is that you might be able to record all of your rides there soon with Coastalwatch and post them for us to enjoy.
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Fuck . As If the 80s Surfing Photo Slut wasn’t bad enough . Though it may end up more of a tool for Litigation and Legal Transactions more so than for capturing banal surfing actions …. ?
Ohhh I like the way your brain works. This could get interesting. Maybe Lenox will finally get its camera LT……
Out goes So Help Me God .
In comes So Help Me Surfline . SHOW ME THE MONEY ?
Yeah I don’t think I’d go straight to Yeppoon. You want to ease into it, try out a few other spots first. Then, when you’re ready, try to Backdoor it.
When I told my wife “I’m sure Yepoon feels much bigger than it looks.” She slapped me.
I can’t get no respect…
better than
“I am thinking about asking a few mates if they would be up for having a crack at Yepoon.”
“sure, but no DP?”
“huh?”
Gedoutta here!
That’s from the same bunch of pics in their email. Looks like a solid two feet 😂
Yeah but if you expand up the photo to fullscreen on your computer, it definitely looks OH.
Maybe if your an Oompa Loompa
So they are struggling to make head high waves. And for goodness sake that is two foot on mostly every scale, and any height after that is likened to the Richter scale really in reasoning isn’t it?
My girls always tell me size doesn’t matter.
8ft Chris Cote scale
a bow tie is 1ft, knee high socks are 4.
Without a scaly-object, those pics means zilch.
It could be 2 foot Hawaiian, or only 2 foot Hawaiian. Let’s see a body in there. Hopefully not a dead one.
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I knew you could find an Old or Newquay to unlock the secrets ?
Would a lizard be regarded as scaly enough ?
Justice will prevail.
David Ike might not like your suggestion.