Wednesday 4 26 23 morning call

Kaa in the morning (photo by Art Wible). While the rest of the foiling world keeps evolving towards tighter carving turns, foam hits, aerials and 360's, here in Maui the massive Barracuda style boards movement is, IMO, slowing down the evolution of the local talents. Thank you Eddie Ogata for sticking to the shortboard style of riding.

Eddie is a great visual inspiration when I foil, but the guy I have in mind the most is Adam Bennetts. Barracuda boards are great for taking off while downwinding (the other alternative being the use of a Foil Drive), but you can't do what Mr. Bennetts does with them.


Hookipa at sunset, after the onshores turned it to junk.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Barbers

• • 1.9ft

    , 13s, S 175º

Lanai

• • 1.5ft

    , 13s, S 175º
  • 0.8ft

    , 18s, S 190º
  
  Decent 13s southerly energy at both buoys, while Lanai also shows almost a foot of 18s energy. Below are the maps of April 19 and 20 showing the fetch that generated it. Surfline shows a peak tomorrow around 1.5ft 15s. If you're paying attention to the fetch maps of the last few days, you know that there's the biggest south swell of the early season on the way (3ft 17s in a week).
  

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

North shore

NW001

• 4.5ft

  , 9s, NNW 330º
• 1.2ft

  , 13s, NW 305º

Hanalei

• 3.9ft

  , 10s, NW 320º
• 1.4ft

  , 8s, NNW 335º

Mokapu

• • 2.8ft

    , 10s, N 350º
  • 2.7ft

    , 6s, NNE 20º

  
  NW energy down in size and period, plus the onshore flow probably will give the waves an added character of storminess. Home guess for Hookipa is for around head high and possibly a bit stormy looking despite the lack of wind in the first hours of light.
  
  

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.