Wednesday 9 20 17 morning call

I didn't go to Lahaina this morning and I took my time to make this post a bit more content filled, also because there's not much to talk about the current poor conditions. It's a bit of a foil dedicated post and it starts with a video of a very long wave somewhere in Australia, posted by GoFoil.


This other one shows an even longer wave. A wave (or a bunch of connected little waves) is 7 miles long from Maliko to Kanaha. That's what the top downwind foilers are achieving these days on a good day. This one is Dave Kalama filmed by Jeremy Riggs (last part of the video is Bill Boyum on a surf ski).

Maliko Run On A Foil, SUP & Ski from Paddle With Riggs on Vimeo.

For the technical guys, heres a snapshot of the above video that shows that Dave has footstraps on both feet and the back foot is surprisingly positioned over the trailing edge of the mast. Next time I see him, I'm gonna ask him why he likes it that far back.


And that's a section of Step Into Liquid that illustrates how it all started.


Talking about historical movies, maybe this one will become one of them. Remember, this Friday September 22 at the Macc 6.30pm.


A quick glimpse to yesterday's conditions (or lack of there of), this is a photo by Jimmie Hepp from this gallery showing a windsurfer at Hookipa playing with the windswell. Should be a  bit better today, as the buoy readings below suggest.


5am significant buoy readings
South shore
W
2.3ft @ 13s from 199° (SSW)

SE
2.8ft @ 11s from 133° (SE)                      

1.3ft @ 15s from 138° (SE)

 

Well I chose not to go to Lahaina and take it easy this morning, but I might have made a mistake, judging by these surprising readings at the outer buoys (SW one doesn't feel anything, at least at 5am). I'll wait for the 6am ones to became available and eventually decide to go anyway. In which case, I'll post a beach report.

** 7.45am update: Those readings completely disappeared at 6am, plus the Kihei webcams don't show anything, so I'm not going south. Todays it's all about the windfoiling for me. **

North shore

NW101
2.1ft @ 12s from 336° (NNW)

Waimea
1.6ft @ 14s from 327° (NW)

Pauwela
1.8ft @ 14s from 348° (NNW)
4.8ft @ 8s from 75° (ENE)

As predicted, the small NW bump arrived and is hitting the buoys with the (small) numbers above. Some more organized lines will occasionally appear in the midst of the windswell bumps.

Wind map at noon.


North Pacific still shows a small NW fetch and the usual windswell fetch.


South Pacific only shows a small Tasman Sea fetch.


Morning sky.