This is a video of the foil wing races posted by Gofoil on their youtube channel.
3am significant buoy readings
South shore
Barbers
1.9ft @ 12s from 189° (S)
Lanai
1.6ft @ 15s from 199° (SSW)
Love the 15s reading at Lanai, unfortunately it looks pretty small instead on the webcam, but if you watch it long enough, you'll see very inconsistent long period sets like this one. It baffles me how many people still drive there without checking it first.
North shore
Mokapu
4.4ft @ 8s from 81° (E)
Hilo
5.5ft @ 8s from 91° (E)
Windswell came up a bit, Hookipa had small kine waves yesterday, and that makes me think that there should be something also today.
Wind map at noon.
North Pacific has the windswell fetch and the tiny but intense ESE one associated with tropical storm Erick. Big Island should block most of the long period energy out of that.
Tasman Sea warming up for a wham later on this week, but it'll be a different fetch than this. The blue circled S fetch should send us also some angular spreading.
My Fiji connection sent me this MSW Cloudbreak forecast. It cracks me up that, according to the left column, 11ft 20s translates into 12-18ft faces. Those spot related forecasts are totally useless. Just use the open ocean swell forecast and learn what that does to your spots. In a few weeks of observation, you'll know better than any surf prediction website.
Btw, in case you were wondering, IF 11ft 20s will really be in the water at Cloudbreak (which I doubt), the faces of the waves will be more like 30-40 feet...
Morning sky.
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