Remember when I said that foilboards usually don't recoil at you in the wipeouts because the foil (or board tail edge if it's upside down) slows down the ricochet? That doesn't apply when the foil is out of the water. With the whole setup up in the air, if the leash gets fully extended the board will sling back at you with no resistance, hence that's a potentially dangerous situation. Fortunately in this wipeout I captured at the harbor yesterday, rider and board were far from each other on the horizontal plane and nothing bad happened.
4am Surfline
significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers. Check the Lahaina
and Kihei webcam if interested, for size,
conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW001
Hanalei
Waimea
PAUWELA!!!
6.1ft @ 9s from 15° (NNE)
After what seems like an eternity, the Pauwela buoy is back online and it shows a healthy amount of 9s energy from 15 degrees. It's going to be a day with virtually no NW energy (one of the first since the beginning of the year), but that's only a short break as the 15 and 20s small readings at Hanalei and Waimea already show the sign of the next long period NW swell that will be in our waters tomorrow. It's going to be a relatively small one, at least compared to the much larger one that models indicate for Friday. Below are the maps of Feb 17 and 18 showing the lack of significant NW fetches.
Home guess for Hookipa in the morning is for head to head and a third, high consistency, relatively weak and calm wind. Eastern exposures will have waves too.
Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.
Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here.
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.
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