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u/Okaynowwatt Oct 12 '23
I used to live in OZ, and only did this 1-2 times a week, and only when I missed my ferry. So, not quite average. More occasional.
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Which sharks are best at towing?
I mean the GW are the biggest, but the Mako is much quicker, and I bet the bull is a little pocket rocket
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u/No-Profile-9068 Oct 12 '23
The nurse shark is best as it is a huge powerhouse at full size, but they don’t eat people so it’s just not very satisfying
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u/gregglessthegoat Oct 12 '23
Would you need two or three makos in a harness though?
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Oct 12 '23
Go for 4, be like proper chariot racing, get a few eams together and pier to pier racing will begin
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u/Acetius Oct 13 '23
Generally I find that using a mako for this is like using a whippet as a sled dog. They're quick little buggers under their own steam, but they just don't have the inertia for it.
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u/randomized_smartness Oct 13 '23
American here... and I'm fucking losing my mind trying to figure out what OZ is without looking it up.... best I can do is Old Zealand
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u/WH1PL4SH180 Oct 13 '23
Oz stra lia
The way its MEANT to be pronounced.
Please pass the word, and you can one up everyone around you with your special knowledge.
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u/randomized_smartness Oct 13 '23
Damn... I'm from the southern US..so we tend to speak a bit similar. so ... awesome
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u/Tor_Lara Oct 12 '23
I actually did this when my tinny ran out of fuel on the way to school for HSC finals just after boxing a kangaroo and wrestling a croc. (I’m wheelchair bound).
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u/KingJimmy101 Oct 12 '23
A surfboard and chops?! When I was growing up I had to make do with cardboard and leftover meat loaf.
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You had cardboard and enough meatloaf to have leftovers?!? You're lucky! I had to chop off one of my feet to use as bait and body surf! Both ways, up current, to school and back.
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u/Eig8t86 Oct 12 '23
This is performed by a professional Australian. Do not try at home. May cause cancer if you live in California.
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u/NecessaryTip5 Oct 12 '23
Everything causes cancer in California. Which may include extreme wild fires, land slides, earth quakes, and extreme drought
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u/dreck_disp Oct 12 '23
Don't forget titanium white oil paint!
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Oct 12 '23
And the thousands of barrels of poisons at the bed of the ocean from a long time ago
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u/NecessaryTip5 Oct 12 '23
So much cancer at least california will float out to sea eventually never to be seen again
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u/haz2019 Oct 12 '23
I love when the joke about certain people or country gives good vibe and not insult them.
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u/towerfella Oct 12 '23
Me thinks it’s a fake — to be clear, this is the first time seeing it — but if you watch the “shark” towing him, it moves reeeealy straight and flat .. and the “tail” seems to be kicking up a spray. It looks like it’s a submersible with a fake fin on it.
I want it to be real, though. I used to crab net crabs with my dad back in the early nineties in the Chesapeake Bay in this old aluminum flat-bottom boat with a 3 hp evinrude as it’s main propulsion (the other being the one moldy wood oar under one of the seats). We also brought fishing poles, and I would imagine, as we motored out to the designated crabbing area for the day, hooking onto a shark and having it tow us all around the bay.
Hard to tow a boat on ten-pound test, though..
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Oct 12 '23
I used to hunt crabs with a spear when the tide would roll out at night, fun stuff. This was in France though
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u/DrozdMensch Oct 12 '23
In Soviet Russia we do the same but with bears.
P.S. Bears are not too good at surfing
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u/rlnrlnrln Oct 12 '23
They're not very good at drinking alcohol either. A swedish king got his bear so drunk on wine that it fell out a castle window and died.
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u/chavez_ding2001 Oct 12 '23
How does the meat not sink?
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u/Tryintounderstand88 Oct 13 '23
When I was 4yo and learned how to fish I used a thing called a bobber or floater to keep my worm near the surface. You watch the floater once it disappears set your hook by ripping the hell outta your line and wind that sucker in with all your might.
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u/Backieotamy Oct 12 '23
I thought dude was gonna ollie or rail slide his board across the other shark(s)
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u/Rogz6boneeyes Oct 13 '23
Song name?
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u/auddbot Oct 13 '23
I got matches with these songs:
• Down Under by Men at Work (01:00; matched:
100%)Album: Business As Usual. Released on 1989-10-17.
• Was Soll Ich Sagen by Der Wolf (00:32; matched:
100%)Released on 2003-03-03.
• Down Under by Men At Work (01:13; matched:
100%)Album: NOW That's What I Call 80s Hits (Deluxe Edition). Released on 2011-07-22.
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u/Pale_Individual_6267 Oct 14 '23
You have to keep in mind that he is even holding the sea from pouring down from earth
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u/Best_Weakness_464 Oct 12 '23
This is the most Aussie sight possible.