Monday 11 12 18 morning call

A SUP foiling and two windfoiling sessions for me yesterday. The wave windfoiling thing is growing into me greatly. It is like gracefully dancing with the ocean. Unfortunately with the mouth mount the videos don't show that at all, so here's a video of Casey Treichler with a setup similar to mine: Gofoil Iwa and a strapless board.


I know that still doesn't look particularly exciting, but every cut back you do from upwind to downwind and vice versa, is a beautiful step of that ocean dance.

This other video instead is a more aggressive kind of WWF. It's the Horue guy Philippe Caneri with straps and aerials. I don't think I'll ever get into that, as regular windsurfing seems more appropriate to me to do such things, but I sure wouldn't mind trying that setup too.


And if you're not familiar with the different windfoiling disciplines, here's an article that illustrates 4 different ones.

4-5am significant buoy readings
South shore
Barbers
1.2ft @ 15s from 216° (SW)

Lanai
1.3ft @ 15s from 207° (SSW)

I got a report of very small waves on the south shore yesterday, but not sure how reliable it is. To me it seems that a foot 15s would produce a knee to waist high set once in a long while and that's exactly what Ala Moana receive in between long flat spells.


North shore
NW101
5.9ft @ 10s from 4° (N)

3.5ft @ 14s from 356° (N)

 

Hanalei

4.7ft @ 11s from 353° (N)

4.7ft @ 9s from 353° (N)

2.5ft @ 15s from 349° (NNW)

 

Waimea

5.8ft @ 12s from 355° (N)

5.4ft @ 9s from 349° (NNW)

1.8ft @ 16s from 329° (NW)

 

Pauwela

4.6ft @ 12s from 343° (NNW)

4.4ft @ 8s from 354° (N)

3.4ft @ 9s from 338° (NNW)

1.8ft @ 18s from 327° (NW)

 

Old swell holding at 4.6f 12s from 343 at Pauwela, with a new small 18s period in the mix. I believe that is from that fetch in the very NW corner we observed in past few days. Below is the collage of the maps of Nov 8,9,10 and 11. The black arrow indicates such fetch, the blue arrow indicates the much closer fetch that generated the waves we've been blessed with in the last couple of days. Not much energy to expect from the distant one at this moment, but as you can see, the fetch then got closer and stronger and already tomorrow we're going to start receiving some of that energy. The biggest day according to the Surfline forecast is Wednesday though at 8.3f 12s from 340.

 

Wind map at noon.

 

NW fetch for Wednesday's swell still going strong in the North Pacific.

 

Nothing from the south.

 

Morning sky.