I came in from my downwinder while Andrea Crociara was ending a session with the wing on a 6.2 Kazuma surfboard. I asked him to go out one more reach so I could take a photo and he kindly did.
Image how happy he was to go back to his foil setup and experience drag free glides and the speed and freedom to do things like this.
This is a 5 minutes edit of my downwinder. Like a giant slalom with no gates.
6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
2.2ft @ 9s from 179° (S)
0.2ft @ 25s from 306° (WNW)
Small short period energy at Barbers, check the Lahaina and Kihei webcam if interested, for
size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW101
Hanalei
Waimea
Mokapu
6.2ft @ 8s from 80° (E)
Pauwela
Fun size 12s NW energy is at Pauwela while the NW buoy shows almost 3ft 20s of the new extra large WNW swell that will be here tomorrow. Below is the Surfline forecast that seems to be perfectly in line with the buoy readings (2ft 22s at 6pm should definitely produces some very inconsistent sets at sunset).
Below are the maps of Feb 20 through 24 that show the fetch that generated this swell. As you can see, it's going to be a very long lasting one.
Home guess for Hookipa in the morning is for head to head and a third high. Wind doesn't seem too strong through my windows.
No official call for the Eddie, but the fact that Surfline has setup a page where to watch it live seems to suggest that it's a probable go.
Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.
Wind map at noon (1 day old). 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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