Surfers could ride 100km from ocean with new Air Wave machine in Hawea Flat
28 Dec, 2020 07:19 PM
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By: Mark Price
A Hawea Flat industrial designer and inventor is attempting to revolutionise the surfing world while at the same time keeping the family farm in the family.
Ross McCarthy has spent 10 years applying some of the technology of bouncy castles to surfing, inventing an inflatable device to deliver, in a pool, standing waves of all shapes and sizes. We ve got an inflatable system that you can pump up to whatever level you like.
As well as being able to change the height of waves, the system also allows for waves to be flat or steep.
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It was owned by the NZL14 Youth Aid Foundation Queenstown, of which Auckland property developer Geoff Hunt is the protector. The foundation owes $600,000 to Hunt on the boat. The yacht, which has a 35-metre carbon fibre mast, was used by a Russell Coutts-led Team New Zealand as a trial yacht in the 1992 America’s Cup challenge. The boat broke from its mooring on the lake in September 2018 and the council said it “persistently” sought for Hunt to take responsibility. It then found a private mooring to tie the boat to and began paying the owner a fee to hold it there.
The response was “very distressing”, he said.
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Queenstown Lakes District Mayor Jim Boult with MP Stuart Nash, during Nash s first visit to Queenstown as Tourism Minister. “It’s extremely unfair for anyone to lift this spectre above our heads again. We’re on the ropes. We’ve got enough to fight for.” Boult said accommodation providers should not panic as there was no plan to introduce a bill in the near future. “I think everybody has plenty of other things on their plates to worry about. There will come a time to discuss it in the future but right now it’s on hold.”
Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 8:37 am | Way to Go group The Wakatipu community is being asked for feedback on a new network of trails to
promote walking and cycling as a preferred travel choice. The Way to Go group –
consisting of Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC), Waka Kotahi NZ Transport . More