Tuesday 1 14 19 morning call

A shortboard and a wave windfoiling session for me yesterday. I will specify the second discipline as "wave" every time from now on, because there was also a friend with a "regular" windfoiling setup (foil box all the way at the back), and boy what a difference between the two! Same difference between wave sailing and slalom sailing. "How can you jibe so easy?", he asked. That's because his setup wants to go straight and fast and mine instead wants to turn and keeps foiling at slow speed. Plenty info about this topic in the posts grouped under the label windfoiling.

Once again I'm going to start with a picture from the 12th. This is one of many wonderful outer reefs we have in Maui. Photo by FishBowlDiary from this gallery.
Talking about the 12th, here's the link to replay of the second day of the Da Hui Shoot-out at Pipeline. Pretty maxed out conditions, with occasional rollovers from the second reef into huge caverns on the inside. I hope they'll keep it there for a while, so I'll watch it a dinner at the time.


Hookipa looked pretty good at sunset.


4am significant buoy readings
South shore
Barbers
2.9ft @ 9s from 179° (S)

Short period energy still registered by Barbers.

North shore
NW101
9.8ft @ 16s from 299° (WNW)

4.3ft @ 10s from 312° (NW)

Hanalei
10.5ft @ 15s from 310° (WNW)

Waimea
8.8ft @ 15s from 313° (NW)

Pauwela
8.8ft @ 14s from 321° (NW)

Below is the graph of NW, Waimea and Pauwela. I put an arrow to indicate the reinforcing bump that in Maui peaked at midnight around 9f. Judging by the graphs, it should come down a foot or two and stay steady during the day. That means yet another day of big waves and clean conditions in the whole morning.


The Surfline forecast has it increasing all day instead, as it predicts the arrival of the swell generated by the fetches we started seeing on the 12th. I believe that will only happen tonight instead. Not the most critical detail, as at 8f or 10f the waves will still pretty big for most of us.


Wind map at 10am.


Wind map at noon. Notice the difference, specially in the Kahului area.


North Pacific has an elongated moderate NW fetch. That's a nice, unblocked direction for Maui.


Nothing in the South Pacific.


Morning sky.