In the local newspaper Thisted Dagblad is written about the conversations where we referred to in our previous post. It is all about how to keep Hanstholm and surroundings inhabited, the following is worth mentioning.

It are fish, ferry and surfers, where the latter represents a new type of people, who in all ways are interesting, because they offer new resources and because they are internationally orientated.

• Originally the surfers were synonym for ‘conflict’, since many of them got their prejudices confirmed. Now we ought to see them as a gift and a group, which fits in the ‘experience economy’, which we would like to expand, said Robert Mogens and adds, that surfers use that part of the sea we’ve until today never have used before – waves.[…]
• A masterplan for windsurfing in Thy should be made, which describes how things should be organized and at the same time depends on jointly responsibility from surfers, said mayor Ejner Frøkjær, who was glad that the relation between surfers and the local inhabitants got further than calling each other names.
• We’re talking to each other again and have admitted we’ve a common interest in clearing the conditions, said the mayor, who at the same time had to hear that over and over again that is and will be Hanstholm Harbour and its activities that will be the #1 economic fundament for Hanstholm.
  The surfers are here, and a proposal was to establish ‘minimal facilities’ for them – toilet facilities.
• We need to bury the hatchet and create a dialog between us and the surfers, believes Kurt Westermann and recommends that in this case both parties need to stand together.

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