Hookipa yesterday morning.
Harbor yesterday morning.
As I wrote yesterday, for me it was an intense day of testing a 5.2x26.5x90 wingboard from Maui Resin Designs. I first tested it as a butt foiling board (see yesterday's description) and then as a wingboard (awesome session, two hours by myself). Unfortunately the strap inserts were not in the offset surf stance position I prefer, so the disquieting problem arose: if one loves footstraps, is it better to test a board with the straps in a non ideal position or without them? Answer was: they both suck, but you got to do both to gather more information.
Conclusion of the day (more of a confirmation, really): SUP foiling and Wingfoiling have different requirements: beveled rails help the first discipline (see yesterday's video), straight edges (specially in the tail) help the second (for light wind takeoffs, at least).
Hookipa in the afternoon.
South shore
Barbers is mostly reading NW wrap and can't be used to
detect small southerly energy. Check the Lahaina and Kihei webcam if interested, for
size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW101
Hanalei
8.4ft @ 13s from 333° (NNW)
Waimea
Pauwela
NW swell appeared (to me) bigger than what the buoys read. The only reason I can find for that is the interaction with the closely generated NNE energy, but that wasn't particularly convincing. So I went back to the usual "not all 6ft 14s are the same". It looks like it's going to be up also today, home guess for Hookipa is head and a half to double with no wind in the morning but not the cleanest lip lines.
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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