How the 2009 ORC could have looked like

Even the Kiwis couldn't get out

Those aren't kiwis (New Zealanders), those are yarpies (South Africans).   You can tell by both the accent and the .co.za in the URL posted at the beginning.  They seem to have a penchant for launching in big surf on their surfskis and there are a ton of videos out there documenting it.

thats what i get for not looking at the full URL. just saw the 'Z' and automatically thought NZ

I forgot to mention.. cool video.  I do love watching yak carnage vids.  There were a few nice inadvertent backwards landings.

He almost made it, too. 

Looks like conditions on the day I decided to learn how to beach launch and land.  Lol!

Now you know why those Sooth Eefrican yaks are built water tight. 

I too have been dumb enough to go out and play around in stuff like that, once ok maybe twice .  Even thought about playing in the surf over Thanksgiving but decided it was much warmer inside the bay crabbing..  Needless to say a Fish and Dive is not the perfect surf yak .. I tend to get pushed backwards more than I like

Great video, that looks like fun!

  That is intense!

Being pushed back up on the beach like a log, is like the ocean is saying...
 "You think you can make it, good luck with that"!