9 14 17 morning call

Fantastic day of surfing on the north shore of Maui yesterday. Between jat lag and poor paddling shape (amazing how one month of intense surfing in Indo can get completely annihilated by 8 days of not surfing and only eating like a pig in Italy), I only managed to do two short sessions, but the waves were beautiful. Here's a few shots to prove that (last two is Will Hunt).








That's the parking at Uluwatu the last day I was there, but it could have also been the parking at Hookipa too. It was packed from pretty much 6.30am on.


4am significant buoy readings
South shore
W
1.7ft @ 14s from 152° (SSE)

That's the only long period southerly energy reported by the outer buoys. Pat Caldwell is calling for 2f 14 but from a SW direction (Tasman sea fetch). The Lahaina webcam is down, you can try the Kihei ones to figure out if it's worth going there. Probably not, considering there's waves on the north shore, but it might be a very uncrowded mellow session. Good for foiling with the high tide, for example.

North shore
NW101
4.2ft @ 10s from 34° (NE)

Waimea

3.3ft @ 11s from 6° (N)

3.1ft @ 9s from 353° (N)

Pauwela
4.7ft @ 10s from 356° (N)

Still solid numbers at the buoys, today should be a repeat of yesterday, before the swell winds down tomorrow.

The wind model I used yesterday was horrible wrong, so today I'm grabbing the HRW from the Windguru page. It should be no wind all day. Still looking for a model to replace the good old MC2km who died last March.



North Pacific shows a weak NW fetch.


South Pacific offers a SE fetch and the start of a Tasman Sea one.


Yesterday it ended up being overcast all day. This is how the sky looks in the early morning.