Friday 9 29 17 morning call

Day of rest for me yesterday. I could have sailed the conditions showed in the photo below by Jimmie Hepp from this gallery, but it was too choppy for my taste.


6am significant buoy readings
South shore
W
1.2ft @ 13s from 195° (SSW)

SW
1.2ft @ 13s from 45° (NE) (wrong direction, it's from the south instead)
Slivers of southerly energy at the outer buoys, there should be still something to ride on the south shore, even though I heard yesterday was minimal. Flat to knee high is my guess.

North shore
N
2.8ft @ 10s from 15° (NNE)

Waimea
3.3ft @ 9s from 352° (N)

Pauwela
3.3ft @ 9s from 350° (N)

Enjoy the northerly waves today, because tomorrow they're gonna be much smaller. As reported from the beach (see below this post), earlier this morning Hookipa was shoulder to head high and relatively clean. Kinda.
Wind map at noon shows easterly trades which, as we know, can get quite stronger than the forecast and gusty.


Fortunately after today the low that will create Monday's NW swell will kill the trades for a few days until some strong trades will pick up again in a week. The calm will coincide with the swell everybody is already waiting for which Surfline predicts to peak Tuesday morning at 5.4f 11s from 334.


North Pacific shows the low that, as I pointed out yesterday, is moving slowly to the ENE and will be responsible for the swell above mentioned. It's starting to have a little fetch of wind oriented our way. Not much yet, but it's modeled to get stronger and better aiming at us.


Finally some hope in the South Pacific with a more favorably oriented strong fetch. The map on the right shows a little patch of strong winds oriented directly towards us, but overall we should get plenty angular spreading also from the swell generated by the winds oriented to our east. Make a mental note of next Friday for some action on the south shore. North shore is gonna be totally blown out anyway, as we just said.


Morning sky.