Saturday 7 31 21 morning call

No photos from yesterday. OneMoreFoto posted this photo of Matt Meola from last winter. He said it was three feet. Ah, the lovely hawaiian scale...

5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers

3ft @ 8s from 172° (S)

1.2ft @ 12s from 230° (SW)

1.2ft @ 15s from 191° (SSW)

Small but long period energy at Barbers (Lanai is offline). Here's a paragraph from Pat Caldwell's latest forecast:
NOAA southern buoy 51002 Friday 7/30 shows an uptick in the 15-17 second wave energy starting ~7 AM HST. That should up the ante a notch for the dusk patrol surfers. There were a string of fast-moving, compact low-pressure systems moving east along 55S to the S to SE of New Zealand 7/21-24. Highest seas were aimed at the Americas. It appears the last in the series had the best surf potential for Hawaii since it acted upon existing seas of similar direction. This event should be short-lived. It should peak on Saturday below to near average.

That would be good news for the Hi-Tech organized Ole Longboard Classic contest at Launiupoko (today and tomorrow). Unfortunately, the webcam shows long period of flatness, only very occasionally interrupted by decent long period sets like this. Better than nothing, I guess. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
Pauwela

4.6ft @ 8s from 82° (E)

3.8ft @ 7s from 76° (ENE)

Strong easterly trades are predicted till Wednesday. The windswell will consequently be increasing, but the direction is going to be pretty easterly, so Hookipa won't pick it up much. Home guess for it is flat to waist high at Pavils. Bigger on eastern exposures.

Forecast and energy spectrum of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here (click on animation of the 10 meter column).

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.
North Pacific (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner of the North Pacific):

South Pacific (about 7 days travel time from east/west of New Zealand):

Morning sky.

Friday 7 30 21 morning call

Second day of complete rest for me. Ankle is doing good, I might have to get in the water today, my gills are dry already.
This is Jason coming in after his sesh yesterday afternoon.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers

2.5ft @ 8s from 175° (S)

1ft @ 11s from 180° (S)

0.9ft @ 13s from 200° (SSW)

0.7ft @ 18s from 191° (SSW)

Small southerly energy at Barbers, check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
Pauwela

3.7ft @ 8s from 87° (E)

3.2ft @ 6s from 79° (ENE)

Small easterly windswell. Home guess for Hookipa is flat with tiny waves at Pavillions. Bigger on eastern exposures.

Forecast and energy spectrum of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here (click on animation of the 10 meter column).

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.
North Pacific (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner of the North Pacific):

South Pacific (about 7 days travel time from east/west of New Zealand):

Morning sky.

Thursday 7 29 21 morning call

No photos from yesterday. A friend of mine is in my favorite spot in Indonesia and posted this on the 27th.

The same day of 2017 I posted this photo of the same wave.

5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers

1.1ft @ 14s from 195° (SSW)

0.6ft @ 12s from 179° (S)

Very small southerly energy at Barbers. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
Pauwela

3.9ft @ 7s from 79° (ENE)

3.6ft @ 8s from 90° (E)

Small easterly windswell at the buoy, home guess for Hookipa is flat with very small waves at Pavillions, a little bigger on the eastern exposures.

Forecast and energy spectrum of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here (click on animation of the 10 meter column).
N/A

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.
North Pacific (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner of the North Pacific):

South Pacific (about 7 days travel time from east/west of New Zealand):

Morning sky.

Wednesday 7 28 21 morning call

An intense day of winging (three very diverse sessions) ended with my first (in this discipline) footstrap related mild ankle injury. Jason Hall took this picture before it happened, yesterday at sunset.

7am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
1.2ft @ 14s from 179° (S)

Lanai
N/A

Very small southerly energy at Barbers (Lanai N/A). Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency. Epic snorkeling.

North shore
Pauwela

3.7ft @ 8s from 90° (E)

3.4ft @ 6s from 80° (E)

Small easterly windswell at the buoy, home guess for Hookipa is borderline flat with small waves at Pavils and on easterly exposures.

Forecast and energy spectrum of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here (click on animation of the 10 meter column).

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.
North Pacific (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner of the North Pacific):

South Pacific (about 7 days travel time from east/west of New Zealand):

Morning sky.

Tuesday 7 27 21 morning call

No waves, no worries! That's when the winging kicks in. Kanaha yesterday, after a finally fun downwinder. I just had to put the footstraps back where they were last year and the magic immediately returned. Incredible how sensitive everything is on a foiling setup.

Alex Aguera moving fast.


Kane and three other kids went downwinding on prone foil boards yesterday at sunset. They probably launched catching a small wave at Hookipa and down they went. Fast. Here's one of them with Jason winging in the foreground.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
1ft @ 15s from 200° (SSW)

Lanai

0.9ft @ 15s from 199° (SSW)

1ft 15s from SSW? Hang on, where's that from? Probably from the Tasman Sea weak fetch circled below in the map of July 20th.

Unfortunately, there's not really much in the water. There might be sets, but they're going to be painfully slow. I hope those guys brought their coffees. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
Pauwela (5am)

4.1ft @ 8s from 83° (E)

3.5ft @ 6s from 75° (ENE)

Small windswell at the buoy, small waves (probably waist high at Pavillions) at Hookipa. Bigger on eastern exposures.

Forecast and energy spectrum of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here (click on animation of the 10 meter column).

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.
North Pacific (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner of the North Pacific):

South Pacific (about 7 days travel time from east/west of New Zealand):

Morning sky.

Monday 7 26 21 morning call

No photos from yesterday. This was posted by Antoine Martin a few days ago.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers

1.4ft @ 13s from 198° (SSW)

0.5ft @ 16s from 210° (SSW)

Lanai

1.2ft @ 13s from 182° (S)

Very small southerly energy at the buoys, check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
Pauwela (5am)

3.8ft @ 9s from 84° (E)

3.4ft @ 7s from 77° (ENE)

3ft @ 6s from 75° (ENE)

Windswell went down quite a bit, as the upstream trades have relaxed a bit. They should do so also locally, as predicted by this NOAA page:
Trade winds are expected to weaken Tuesday through Wednesday. Building high pressure to the north and a surface trough passing by well south of the state are expected to result in locally strong trades returning by Thursday.

Home guess for Hookipa is around belly high and sloppy, bigger on eastern exposures.

Forecast and energy spectrum of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here (click on animation of the 10 meter column).

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.
North Pacific (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner of the North Pacific):

South Pacific (about 7 days travel time from east/west of New Zealand):

Morning sky.

Sunday 7 25 21 morning call

For the third day in a row, I'm going to mention the feeling of snowboarding on air while carving on a foil. This time is Paige Alms executing, in a photo from yesterday by Jason Hall.

The camera focused on the plant, but the photo still shows a bit of left and right action at Pavillions.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
1.5ft @ 14s from 182° (S)

Lanai

1ft @ 14s from 184° (S)

Southerly energy down to only 1ft 14s at Lanai.
Below are the maps of July 18 through 24. With the exception of the fetch on the first one (only 0.5ft 18s predicted by Surfline from it today though, and I don't even see it at the buoys), there have not been any fetches of particular interest. I'm afraid next week is going to be a small one on the south shores. Good, I need to get ready for my trip.

Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.


North shore
Pauwela (5am)

5.2ft @ 9s from 80° (E)

3.4ft @ 7s from 57° (ENE)

Easterly windswell is still up at Pauwela.  Home guess for Hookipa is waist to chest high and sloppy, bigger on eastern exposures.

Forecast and energy spectrum of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here (click on animation of the 10 meter column).

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.
North Pacific (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner of the North Pacific):

South Pacific (about 7 days travel time from east/west of New Zealand):

Morning sky.