The foiling instead was excellent once again. Chris Pagdilao is nailing these black and white shots.
The colored ones not too shabby either.
As predicted by the wind model, the wind did hit Hookipa, but not Kanaha. Here's Casey Hauser challenging the steep waves with his windfoiler. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this gallery.
I much prefer to ride the slopier waves down the coast, but I might have to give it a try today, as Kanaha is completely flat.
5am significant buoy readings
South shore
Lanai
1.7ft @ 9s from 166° (SSE)
1.6ft @ 8s from 170° (S)
1.1ft @ 12s from 190° (S)
0.7ft @ 11s from 192° (SSW)
Multiple small short period readings at Lanai. Ala Moana shows just that, maybe with a bit bigger size than we can expect in Maui, as it gets more wrap from the ESE windswell.
North shore
NW101
3.3ft @ 11s from 292° (WNW)
Hanalei
1.5ft @ 12s from 327° (NW)
0.4ft @ 20s from 339° (NNW)
Waimea
1.5ft @ 11s from 346° (NNW)
0.3ft @ 20s from 300° (WNW)
Pauwela
4ft @ 8s from 74° (ENE)
2.3ft @ 11s from 354° (N)
Small waves on tap for the day, the webcam at Hookipa shows clean flat to waist high (possibly occasionally chest high) conditions. Notice the sliver of long period WNW energy at Hanalei and Waimea (first one, direction not reliable). That tells us that we can expect the new WNW swell to eventually show up in the afternoon. But with such a westerly direction, the sets should be fairly inconsistent and only up the coast at Hookipa. We can safely consider it a transition day.
Wind map at noon. The previous maps show calm until 9-10am when a light onshore is predicted to pick up.
North Pacific has a WNW fetch.
A remote S fetch is on offer in the South Pacific.
Morning sky.
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