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Come the revolution taking a potshot at jet skis would not just be legal but compulsory. The ‘Rude’ thread comes to mind – basically the noisy **** are rude from the moment they start their engines to the moment the turn them off.
Utter utter nuisance. Saw a couple of jetskiers just the other day smashing 20kn in a 5kn limit. Just can't help themselves.
Thing is they're so boring. In sub-five minutes, you're an expert. Zero skill needed. And then what do you go and do?
Oh yes, go and find people doing interesting activities to annoy 🙄🙄
Edit: come to think about it they should just shoot anyone walking into a jetski dealership. Cut out the middleman!
This is like one of those cyclist generalisation discussions on car/lorry Facebook pages.
Just to cheer you up.
Not sure about all the idiotic jetski hate on here though….
Go to Black Rock Sands on any summer weekend and you'll understand. Idiotic chavs from NW England buzzing adults and kids swimming and messing about in chest deep water. When the beach patrol try and stop them, they just piss off for 20 minutes, then come back.
(And then there's the bloody noise!)
There is a class of jetski user that clearly have never looked at an admiralty chart...
One of the best schadenfreude (sp?) experiences I've ever had was a jet skier buzzing boats navigating the narrow, buoyed channel out of Conwy harbour. He was cutting sharp turns to push wake up against the sides of boats and had one of those stupid piddly streams of water squirting up in the air that he tried to aim at people in boats at the same time.
Somebody told him to eff off and he laughed and nailed the throttle, throwing up a big plume of water and headed out to sea at vast speed...
...straight towards where all the seagulls were standing up.
Everyone could see what was going to happen. The strangled gurgling noise the thing made as it wedged itself onto the barely submerged sandbank and stalled in a fountain of silt was brilliant. Pilot went flying off the front, but picked himself up and was last seen in ankle deep water trying to get the piece of crap unstuck from the mud.
My how we laughed... (once we realised he was still alive, of course).
Read it on the news , thought he was an idiot. Lucky to get across alive in December as the weather could have been terrible.The rescue effort to even find him would have involved dozens, if he had told anyone his intended dept and arrival times and locations.
Loads of nobbers down my way . 5kn speed limit , swimming area , sailcraft area all mean nothing. Loads of hooligan dick moves around kids, horses out for a paddle , SUP riders are aimed at, they stink and are pretty pointless .
Launch , go 100mtr to end of 5kn limit , full chat for 1 min , trn round and come back. I dont get it , bit like riding up and down the same fire road for an hour when there is a whole forest to explore
I like Jet skis 🙂
I spent a couple of years having fun falling off them and drinking half the South China sea when I lived in HK.
I reckon they are like mountain bikes, you can hoon around on them in the local National Trust carpark peeing off the ramblers, or you can find some empty spot and mess about with no one to bother.
Thing is they’re so boring. In sub-five minutes, you’re an expert. Zero skill needed. And then what do you go and do?
Like a road bike then? But fun for the first 5 minutes.
Go to Black Rock Sands on any summer weekend and you’ll understand. Idiotic chavs from NW England buzzing adults and kids swimming and messing about in chest deep water. When the beach patrol try and stop them, they just piss off for 20 minutes, then come back.
(And then there’s the bloody noise!)
Go to the green Welly in Tyndrum any weekend in summer, you'll get similar behaviour from motorcyclists.
But to judge all MCists by that behaviour? That would be silly.
This is like one of those cyclist generalisation discussions on car/lorry Facebook pages.
Whilst I appreciate there is an element of truth in this, have you ever had the joy of spending time in the vicinity of a typical jetski being used? Again, I like the possibilities of what you could attempt on one but the number you see just being a nuisance is very hard to ignore and make generalisations from. It's also a self fulfilling image; because of their reputation few with a background in watersports (the sort of people you'd imagine would use it both sensibly and with ambition to do something actually adventurous) would dream of being tarred with the same brush so would not buy one so the nobber stereotype doesn't get watered down.
I had a go on a jet ski off a beach for 10min, thought it was amaaaaazing!
Did an organised tour round magnetic Island on one which was perhaps 2h. It was thourghly horrible after 1h.
Just smashing into the waves repeatedly. Out at sea so no real sensation of speed.
That and the briefing included " and that's the tiger shark breeding ground, don't fall on there". Which was enough to concentrate the mind somewhat!
Go to the green Welly in Tyndrum any weekend in summer, you’ll get similar behaviour from motorcyclists.
I had to google the Green Welly - is it some sort of cafe?
Do the motorcyclists ride around the tables, or something?
My home patch, TM has it even on flat water 40 mins (RIB) for a pint or two and lunch in the Steam Packet Packet is hard work, this time of year on a 'jet ski'?
On the upside, he will get free christmas dinner, something on new year too!
Once you get over the dumbness, you've got to credit the lad for having the balls to do that for his girl. Hope she appreciates it and it all works out for him.
@tall_martin I regularly used to paddle my surf ski around Maggie Island. There's a fair current between the island and Palleranda when the tide's running and it can get really choppy there, especially if there's contrary wind.
Paddling is better than jet ski because you see more in the water. Eg mackerel making the water boil all around you, and tiger sharks zipping around snacking on them. They weren't pulling your leg about it being breeding grounds. They also used to get white pointers back in the day - when the meatworks used to discharge into Ross River. One was as long as the harbour pilot boat.
I used to live on Ko Phangan. If I needed to buy anything more sophisticated than a Mars Bar I had to go to Ko Samui, and sometimes a jet ski was the easiest way to get there.
I felt like James Bond the first time, but it was less fun on each occasion.
For those wondering what he was wearing
Scotland-Isle of Man water scooter crossing arrival caught on camera
Aye, saw that, not even a pair of gloves! lol!
A quick look on their facebook profiles confirms this is a match made in heaven
Once you get over the dumbness, you’ve got to credit the lad for having the balls to do that for his girl.
Thin line between bravery and stupidity. I have a sneaking suspicion he is on the wrong side regarding understanding the risks.
For those wondering what he was wearing
good he was wearing some protection, but looks like he was riding a training shoe (as I call sneakers) rather than a jestki shirley? A large training shoe, unless he's very small.
25km walk afterwards too! Joking aside, it does seem to be fairly irrational behaviour.
I had to google the Green Welly – is it some sort of cafe?
that would depend on your definition of cafe! Unless its improved a lot it serves neither great coffee not good food, and has the ambience of a 1980's service station...
Do the motorcyclists ride around the tables, or something?
Its a petrol station, tourist tat shop, and mediocre canteen with a big car park. Its geographic location makes it a common meeting and stopping place for people in motorised transport heading north to the highlands (or on the way home). Groups of motorcyclists making a racket in the car park and folk showing off leaving the car park is not unusual. If you choose to go for a picnic in the car park you are probably likely to think of them much like a surfer who chooses to go surfing on a beach where jetskis can easily launch. Of course, one might question whether a car park is a good place for a quiet picnic... and by analogy, whether a surfer has a right to expect peace.
Thing is they’re so boring. In sub-five minutes, you’re an expert. Zero skill needed. And then what do you go and do?
Like a road bike then? But fun for the first 5 minutes.
No, irretrievably boring for all five minutes too! Just such a waste of time. And money! I guess towing one up and down the slip is the interesting part of ownership.
I'm impressed.
Not only that it ran for four hours without refueling but that he's rocked up on this and abandoned it on the shore.
Baller.
Thin line between bravery and stupidity. I have a sneaking suspicion he is on the wrong side regarding understanding the risks.
He's obviously better at judging risk than you. He got there.
Yeah I was imaging him on a stand-up one not the sit down ones so a bit less impressive, wonder where he got it from if he just abandoned it - looks in good condition in the picture
"He’s obviously better at judging risk than you. He got there." he was lucky this time, that doesn't mean he would be the next time, and he's in prison so his risk awareness is nil really.
His sentence should include some community service with the lifeboat station on Douglas to understand who has to pick up the pieces when it all goes wrong
He’s obviously better at judging risk than you. He got there.
I'd want to get there several times after a journey that long.
choose to go for a picnic in the car park you are probably likely to think of them much like a surfer who chooses to go surfing on a beach where jetskis can easily launch
yeah that follows 🙂
Prison is probably deserved, but four weeks seems harsh. Anyhow, he's clearly missed his calling in life - if he's mental/stupid enough to do a 4 hours jetski through a freezing ocean followed by a 15 mile hike he should have joined the infantry.
Everything about this story tells me the guy is an idiot….albeit an idiot with big balls…
Well once he'd warmed up again!
if he’s mental/stupid enough to do a 4 hours jetski through a freezing ocean followed by a 15 mile hike he should have joined the Royal Marines
ftfy
The Marines seems like an obvious fit but I’m not sure a bloke who jetskid into the open ocean for a **** with a real woman could go three months on a boat with 500 men (and a handful of women).
Seadoo? Easier to be sat down for 4.5h.
He’s obviously better at judging risk than you. He got there.
Which has nothing to do with judging risks.
I could go for a walk in avalanche country and have a lovely day out without harm.
Doesnt mean I would have judged the risk better than someone who was aware that day and area was listed as high risk and so gave it a miss.
It simply means I got lucky.
I am sure you have seen photos of people standing on top of cornices and enjoying the view. Now they may have judged the risk accurately but in many cases its more likely they simply werent aware of it.