telus022420 wrote:Maybe anchor boat 200/300 meters (on or near windline). Connect the boat to the dock via a rope. Windsurfers could sit on the board and use the rope to pull themselves from the dock to the boat, swim a few meters into the windline? Maybe a jetski could ferry a few windsufers/kiters out/back from windline.
That's not how windsurfing is done anywhere it's popular. Crazy setups like this will kill windsports in Squamish. Some old timers might be desperate enough to do this for a while (if it's even possible at this location), but in total this will wipe Squamish off the map within a few short years as far as kiteboarding and windsurfing is concerned.
We need to fight for a new spit / berm to be built near the terminals, and for the city to figure out Nexen parking situation before everything is built there, and before the spit is removed next winter. We need to fight for a
long term solution that will handle our current numbers and have room for future growth.
Otherwise if we keep quiet, they'll just remove the spit in December, tell us to run a ferry from mamquam blind channel to the spit launch pad island, and put up 1 hr max parking signs everywhere at Oceanfront. No windsports, no problem.