Sunday 3 26 23 morning call

Hookipa mid morning yesterday.

Hookipa in the afternoon. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album.

Hookipa at sunset.

5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Lanai

• 0.7ft

  , 14s, SSW 195º

Lanai registers a trace of 14s energy from 195. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW001

• 3.2ft

  , 15s, NW 315º
• 5.1ft

  , 9s, E 90º

Mokapu

• 4.5ft

  , 9s, E 80º
• 4.3ft

  , 6s, E 85º
• 1.5ft

  , 13s, N 10º

A new small NW swell is at the NW buoy. Below are the maps of March 23 through 25 that show the fetch that generated it.

Below is the Surfline forecast showing this swell only rising to 1.6ft 16s at sunset and reaching 2.6ft 13s tomorrow morning.

Home guess for Hookipa is around chest to head high and clean with no wind for the first half of the morning and a slight increasing trend throughout the day.

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.

Saturday 3 25 23 morning call

Hookipa yesterday morning.

Hookipa yesterday afternoon.

5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
No southerly energy at the buoys. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
Barbers

• 3.2ft

  , 9s, NW 315º
• 3.4ft

  , 6s, S 180º
• 0.6ft

  , 14s, NW 305º

NW001

• 5.7ft

  , 9s, E 85º
• 2.8ft

  , 13s, N 350º
• 1.8ft

  , 11s, N 355º

Mokapu

• 4.5ft

  , 9s, E 90º
• 2.4ft

  , 5s, E 90º
• 0.5ft

  , 14s, N 350º

Today I put Barbers in the north shore buoys list, as it's the only local one that gives an indication of the NW energy in the water. Those 7.4ft 10s that yesterday were at the NW buoy never really made it here (or at least, I didn't notice), and today there should be a mix of a couple of different periods. Home guess for Hookipa is around head high with possible bigger sets.

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.

6.45am hookipa is flat to occasionally chest high. Nw energy still minimal. 

Friday 3 24 23 morning call

A rare image of me riding a 8.6 barracuda style board that I tested yesterday morning. Rare because I don't particularly like them. Sure they paddle fast and catch waves easy, but then it's like riding a longboard while foiling. They're designed for downinders and they do work for that. I had the feeling I could successfully take off unassisted if I use a big enough foil like in this case (Armstrong 1550). With the Foil Drive instead, I can take off any time I want with a footstrapped 5.0 and as small of a foil as I want. To each his own.
Photo by Dan Taylor.

Not that I don't like longboards, that's an image from the surf session I had afterwards (testing some webbed gloves). I caught a few and then went in to get rid of the gloves (they worked, but I hated wearing them) and to switch to a shortboard as the waves were big/good enough.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Lanai

• 0.9ft

  , 12s, SSW 200º
• 0.6ft

  , 15s, SW 220º

Small long period southerly energy at Lanai. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW001

• 7.4ft

  , 10s, NNW 345º
• 3.9ft

  , 9s, NE 55º
• 2.6ft

  , 4s, NW 325º

Mokapu

• 3.5ft

  , 8s, ENE 70º
• 1.5ft

  , 13s, NNE 30º

The NW swell I discussed yesterday finally peaked up at the NW buoys and it's showing a much higher number than the Surfline prediction calling for 2ft 12s locally. Hard to guess how much we're gonna get without the local buoys, but it should be more than 2 feet. Home guess for Hookipa is a bit of a shot in the dark (literally, seeing the time): head high to start the day and possibly building to head and a half at sunset. No wind in the first half of the morning.
Easterly windswell went down and the easterly exposures will be small today.

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.

Thursday 3 23 23 morning call

Hookipa yesterday afternoon.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Barbers

• 1.1ft

  , 13s, SSW 195º
• 0.9ft

  , 9s, NW 320º

Lanai

• 1.5ft

  , 13s, SSW 195º

South swell continues now down to 13s. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

Mokapu

• 6.9ft

  , 9s, ENE 65º
• 3.1ft

  , 6s, E 80º

As a consequence of a strong upstream fetch located from just east of the island and extending half way towards California, the easterly windswell went up to 9ft 9s at Mokapu yesterday and I saw double overhead sets on eastern exposures. A little smaller today, but still solid. There should/could be also some small NW energy underneath, but the NW buoys are too exposed to the elements to record it and the lack of local buoys open to that direction makes it virtually impossible to know if it's here or not. The only sign we have is that foot 9s at Barbers.
Below are the maps of March 19 through 21 that show the fetch that generated it.

Based on the Mokapu reading, my home guess for Hookipa is around head to occasionally head and half of easterly peaky waves and no wind. Bigger on easterly exposures.

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.

Wednesday 3 22 23 morning call

Hookipa yesterday. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album.

Andrea at Kanaha yesterday.

8pm yesterday Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Barbers

• 1.3ft

  , 14s, S 180º

Lanai

• 1.4ft

  , 14s, S 190º

For some reason the readings are from 8pm yesterday. Both Barbers and Lanai record similar 14s southerly energy. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

Mokapu

• 9.4ft

  , 10s, N 10º

As predicted, yesterday the short period northerly energy was smaller in the morning that it was the day before. But I was surprised to see the waves come up again in the afternoon. That 8pm reading at Mokapu shows that increase. There's no readings this morning, so I don't know what's in the water and can't call the size for Hookipa. The Surfline forecast calls for mostly easterly windswell (8ft 8s from 75) and only a little bit of north leftover (2ft 10s), but it seems unlikely that it dropped from almost 10ft to only 2, so I'm expecting to be more than that. And that's all I can say.

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.

Tuesday 3 21 22 morning call

Hookipa yesterday afternoon. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album.

Hookipa at sunset.

While I'm posting this, I'm also watching the GWA wingfoil contest in Cabo Verde in solid size waves. Here's the issue I experienced while wingfoiling in big waves and light wind: you need a foil that is big enough to foil in light wind but when you get on the face of a big wave, the foil is too big for the speed, specially on such a steep/fast wave like Punta Preta. But these guys are good enough to handle.

5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Lanai

• 1.1ft

  , 17s, SSW 205º

The small long period southerly energy coming from the fetch I pointed out yesterday rose to 1.1ft 17s at Lanai. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW001

• 10.8ft

  , 11s, ENE 60º
• 6.3ft

  , 7s, SE 125º
• 0.8ft

  , 16s, NE 55º

N

• 7.7ft

  , 9s, NE 50º
• 5.5ft

  , 6s, E 80º

Mokapu

• 8.4ft

  , 11s, N 0º
• 3.3ft

  , 7s, NNE 15º
• 3.2ft

  , 6s, ENE 65º

Solid short period northerly energy continues at the buoys. Home guess for Hookipa is head and a half to double with a slow decline trend throughout the day.

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.