QLD - Tale of Woe - Palmy 25-01-11

[Dodge]

Jon a great yarn and as others have said you deserved better results, and certainly is worthy of T.O.W consideration mate

[Slide]

Oh man, that was funny I suspect you need to lose the r off your revo. Good on you for trying.

[missingdna]

that HAS to be one of the funniest things ive read for ages. Good to see you didnt come to any harm.

[kraley]

Definite TOW award material.

Thanks for posting. A refreshing alternative to those that just show up to brag about their latest trophy catch. Well written, too.

[nezevic]

Safa i figured that was you and your son. I didn't want my luck to get too close in case i knocked a hole in your stealth!

Yeah i didn't think the swell was so bad going out early but they definately cleaned me up. Coming back in it was a little frightening watching the waves dump on the outer bank and knowing that i had no choice but to cop it sweet! I just kept trying not to think about whether there was a bigger noah swimming around. In hindsight watching the surf in full daylight after i got back in i shouldn't have launched from seventh ave. The sand bar was a little shallower there than further north and it was causing the waves to stand up a bit. I was just lucky there wasn't a large sweep on the beach so i could get in without too much trouble.

It certainly hasn't put me off surf launches... but it was a good learning experience. I did everything i thought was right but apparently Nemo thought i was wrong. I now have to earn enough brownie points to justify the purchases to fix the yak and get a new paddle.

[Barrabundy]

At least you could still share the experience. I haven't done a surf launch for about a year and, what I call surf isn't really surf but, I've never been able to pick sets and I think it's just a myth. As for the paddle on the way out....I don't! I leave the paddle in the keeper (ssometimes the surf dislodges it) and paddle for my coit.

[Safa]

Jon,
You know how the saying goes when you fall off a horse..........................?
Its all about experience in the surf the more the better,mate us so called 'seasoned offshore' boys still see our arse plenty so ,just shake it off and give it another go always willing to give some tips if we meet before the launch but today i could have given you nothing but a railway sleeper (dont think you could break that ) although im sure you would give it ago!

[indiedog]

Jon that's a hilarious story......... after the event! That's the sort of sh$t that happens to me! I have been smashed by the surf at Palmy too so know how you feel mate. Top marks for persisting and making it out, many others would have given up. I can just imagine the feeling of sitting there with an aluminium "tube" for a paddle.

[mattayogi]

Quality tale!

As for the bronzies - they might not win you as many brownie points as a spanish mackerel, but they're still a fantastic feed with no bones to worry about. Wish I scored some this morning, but I was dangling my legs in that murky water on a surfboard.

Matt

[andybear]

Jon,
I hate to say it, but I think that you've just outdone Andybear. I had to have a laugh when you snapped the paddle for a second time. I can just picture it in my head.
Better luck next time.
Chris

Definite TOW award material.

Thanks for posting. A refreshing alternative to those that just show up to brag about their latest trophy catch. Well written, too.

Jon a great yarn and as others have said you deserved better results, and certainly is worthy of T.O.W consideration mate

Jon! Maaaaate!

Sorry to hear about your losses. Trying to paddle with a didgeridoo.......nearly wet myself laughing. You should have tried my hand pedal technique on the launch!!! might have saved you some grief!

Upside is, with all these other nominations for the "Tale of Woe" I loudly agree, that you are qualified, and deserve, to wear the millstone......I mean accolade of the title! which I gleefully renounce



Cheers andybear

[spottymac]

That was so funny I haven't stop laughing,
The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago when I gave a mate my good paddle on his first trip out and I used the useless Hobie paddle,
I shit my self on the first paddle stroke it folded in half and I got smashed,
YOU ARE A LEGEND FOR HANGING IN THERE,

[Stippy]

'Onya for persevering mate. It was bad enough to have one half of the (notoriously shit) Hobie paddle snap at the blade in the middle of Lake Illawarra (on a Quest with no other means of propulsion). But both ends in the surf?! You must have done some bad things in a past life. But from the safety of my office, hilarious!

Cheers,
Adam.

BTW Martin if you're reading this the new paddle was brilliant up in Forster

[Zed]

My wife tells me i'm expensive and that i'd better not be thinking about going fishing again for a while. That is my tale of woe.

I now have to earn enough brownie points to justify the purchases to fix the yak and get a new paddle.

Have you seen the price of women's shoes? I mean, you know what I mean.

Thanks for the write up. Hope you get squared away and back under power soon.

[Bdahm]

I headed over to another bloke on a kayak (I didn’t get your name but thank you for your assistance if you read this)

You're welcome...and i thought you were having a bad day when i first saw you!

Me and my hobie paddle are heading out again in the morning...i hope it holds up better then yours.

Tony

[solatree]

Jon - why I am laughing at such misfortune ? Its just not on ! Such amazing perseverence in the face of adversity - you truly deserve an award !