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Postby Stone Fox » Sun May 06, 2007 9:31 pm

drowningbitbybit wrote:Thats my prediction anyway. But I didnt spend £8million on it, so hopefully Im wrong :wink:


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The REALLY amusing thing is, I think his opinion is probably a lot more accurate than the predictions of the people spending £8,000,000 to try and improve surfing tourism in the area.
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Postby Surfing-Innovation » Sun May 06, 2007 10:15 pm

I read about this ages ago and couldn't believe it - like has already been said, it's all well and good making a reef, but why put it in a part of the country that is all but blocked from any half decent swell????

I'll stick to the South West, thanks anyway ............... :D
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Postby sinistapenguin » Thu May 17, 2007 12:40 pm

Latest word from my friend who lives in Boscombe is that since it's going to cost so much, they may be looking at ways of recouping the cash.

It seems that they may be handing over the management to a local surf school, which will probably mean charges to use the reef.

Don't know how you'd police it, but that seems to be the rumour at the moment.

So, would you pay (probably a lot once it's rennovated) to park, then pay to use the reef in a part of the world that doesn't get great surf anyway? Or would you drive further down the coast?

Cheers

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Postby drowningbitbybit » Thu May 17, 2007 12:42 pm

It's less than 20 minutes drive to a real reef.... :roll:
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Postby kitesurfer » Thu May 17, 2007 1:10 pm

sinistapenguin wrote:Latest word from my friend who lives in Boscombe is that since it's going to cost so much, they may be looking at ways of recouping the cash.

It seems that they may be handing over the management to a local surf school, which will probably mean charges to use the reef.

Don't know how you'd police it, but that seems to be the rumour at the moment.

So, would you pay (probably a lot once it's rennovated) to park, then pay to use the reef in a part of the world that doesn't get great surf anyway? Or would you drive further down the coast?

Cheers


Sinista :shrug:


The reef is being funded from the re-development of the lower boscombe car park which is currently being turned into flats.
Hahahahahaha. Nice rumour though LMFAO.

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Postby sinistapenguin » Thu May 17, 2007 1:19 pm

It may not be to recoup the cost then, but the surf school thing seems to be real enough
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Postby kitesurfer » Thu May 17, 2007 1:39 pm

sinistapenguin wrote:It may not be to recoup the cost then, but the surf school thing seems to be real enough


But can you just see them trying to manage it. Maybe we should moor a pontoon on it and declare it the principality of Harmergeddon!

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Postby northswell » Thu May 17, 2007 2:54 pm

How can you charge for it. No one owns the sea.

You kick out of a nice long ride and there's some dude on a jet ski, that will be a fiver mate.
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Postby bluesnowcone » Fri May 18, 2007 8:17 pm

the reef isn't definate at the moment, talking to some guy and he was saying how they havn't got the right paperwork and stuff, and the council are actuly thinking of charging, i dont know how they would but they might
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Postby essex sucks » Fri May 18, 2007 10:06 pm

it was in the paper today that blackpool are going to charge £3.00 a person to go on the beach kids go free
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Postby bluesnowcone » Sat May 19, 2007 11:13 am

bloddy hell thats just crazy
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Postby essex sucks » Sat May 19, 2007 11:24 am

i read that in a cafe i shouted out loud for flesh sake what are they on
man did i get some funny looks :D
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Postby Milo » Sat May 19, 2007 1:54 pm

Making people pay to go on popular beachs, may force other surfers to hunt out s spots. That should cheer the locals up :D
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Postby northswell » Sat May 19, 2007 2:08 pm

Bloody hell, i wouldn't bother.

http://www.sortedsurfshop.co.uk/weather.asp

no waves and there has to be more than thirty out.
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Postby bluesnowcone » Sat May 19, 2007 4:57 pm

northswell wrote:Bloody hell, i wouldn't bother.

http://www.sortedsurfshop.co.uk/weather.asp

no waves and there has to be more than thirty out.


i had a chance to go down their today, took one look at the webcam and said no way, going for a dawn sesh tomorrow tho, thats the only time its gunu be emptyish
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