Best smile in the foiling lineup: Gaby is a lovely mix of youth, beauty, grace, style and friendliness. Yesterday at the harbor.
And now a few grabs out of social media posts: This is Kai Lenny going switch at Jaws. Photo by Surffilming.
Derek Hamasaki. Photo by Peter King.
Steve Sadler. Photo by James Flynn.
Pretty hysterical clip celebrating Bernd Roediger's win at the PWA contest in Cabo Verde. It starts with some killer wave riding and then it gets funny, freaky funny. Well done to both Bernd and to clip editor Paul van Bellen.
5am 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
NW101
Hanalei
Waimea
Pauwela
At least three different swells in the water today. Pauwela tells us that at the moment the most dominant is still the ENE 9s windswell, but there's also a small long period distantly generated WNW one that should be building throughout the day. Lastly, there's also a shorter period nearby generated NNW swell (clearly visible at the NW buoy). Below are the maps of Mar 4 through 7, on which I put red arrows to indicate the remote fetch and black ones to indicated the nearby fetch.
Below on the left is Hanalei's graph on which I drew a red line to show how the long period WNW swell should pick up locally. If that is going to be correct, the Surfline forecast on the right seems to be too early and too optimistic with 6.3ft 16s from 328 at noon. It might be a model glitch, if that blue line would have kept rising without the noon spike, it would have been much more realistic (still early, though).
Home guess for Hookipa is around head high and clean conditions and increasing through the day. Eastern exposures will keep having fun size short period windswell waves.
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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Your vacation to Sri Lanka is very interesting and very fun. I like reading your blog. Thank you for sharing your experiences and knowledge about holidays and surfing.
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