The moment before you wanted to nose ride your shortboard and forgot there's no wax on the nose and slipped right off.
Didn't take many photos at the harbor in the afternoon as I just missed young Kane who was totally ripping on his tiny prone foil board when I was out. I only caught this over the fall wipeout by a body boarder. Better than nothing, it still shows the wave. Btw, I'm going to blame Kane for inspiring me to get a small prone foil board and try to do what he's doing. Damn ripper kid.
4am significant buoy readings
North shore
NW101
4.4ft @ 12s from 337° (NNW)
2.4ft @ 10s from 345° (NNW)
Hanalei
5.7ft @ 13s from 338° (NNW)
2.9ft @ 9s from 352° (N)
Waimea
6.7ft @ 13s from 339° (NNW)
2.6ft @ 9s from 350° (N)
Pauwela
5.6ft @ 13s from 338° (NNW)
3.8ft @ 9s from 350° (N)
NNW swell on its way down at the NW101 buoy, so we can expect the same throughout the day also locally. Plenty energy still in the water, but it should be a little smaller than yesterday to start with and then slowly come down before another pulse picks up tomorrow.
South shore
Lanai
1.8ft @ 14s from 198° (SSW)
Lanai is the only buoy picking up some southerly energy. The period is similar to the NNW swell in the water, I wonder if that's a wrap. Surfline calls it flat, so even if there's some waves, they should be pretty small. There actually was a small SSW fetch 7 days ago. Below is the map of Nov 8th. Nothing after that.
Wind map at noon. The wind is going to be calm and the waves clean until 9-10am.
North Pacific continues to produce NW fetches one after the other. I'm liking this season so far. Many swells, none of them extra large just yet. And as soon as I wrote that, I noticed 14f 18s predicted by Surfline on Dec 1st. Way too far ahead to get excited (or worried).
Nothing from the south.
Here's a massive fetch in the Atlantic aimed to Portugal. The Nazare Challenge is on for tomorrow. Good luck to the four Maui guys in it: Billy Kemper, Kai Lenny, Ian Walsh and Francisco Porcella.
Morning sky.
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