Sunday 10 28 19 morning call

The waves at Hookipa were a little smaller than the day before, but not by much. With the Aloha Classic on the starting block, lots of photographer were shooting the best windsurfers in the world. Here's my pick of FishBowlDiaries album.


The windsurfing world has two main tours at the moment: PWA and IWT. Both will be joined in the Aloha Classic which is the only event that will showcase all of the best windsurfers in the world and both tour will crown their champions (for un update on the PWA rankings, this is a video by Ben Profitt ). One of the pros that is rarely seen in Maui for example is Alex Mussolini. My pick of Si Crowther album.


My pick of Jimmie Hepp's album shows a sailor that while he's bottom turning on a beautiful wave, he's also kinda top turning on a cross chop coming from the east, a pretty classic feature of very windy places like Hookipa.


6am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
Barbers
0.9ft @ 16s from 211° (SW)

Lanai
0.9ft @ 16s from 200° (SSW)

Almost a foot 16s at the buoys out of a small fetch SE of New Zealand a week ago (below). The webcam shows very small waves, so I wouldn't be any excited. Check it out yourself.
Below is the collage of the fetch maps of Oct 20 through 25 which shows decent fetches unfortunately often partially blocked by New Zealand. The waves should increase compared to today though.



North shore
NW101
4.6ft @ 17s from 303° (WNW)

Waimea
3.8ft @ 10s from 351° (N)

1.1ft @ 20s from 316° (NW)

Pauwela
4.6ft @ 9s from 14° (NNE)                        

1.1ft @ 20s from 334° (NNW)

 

The short period closely generated northerly energy is now coming more and more from the NNE and declining, while the forerunning long period energy of the distantly generated first pulse of the big NW swell is already at the buoys. Not particularly impressive just yet, the waves should be barely head high to start with, but slowly increasing throughout all day with the biggest days predicted to be Monday and Tuesday.

This is the latest Windguru table. The wind model I use for the daily noon map confirms decent wind for the next three days, and if they decide to start the contest today (very likely, but not 100% guaranteed), that's all they gonna get. That five days in a row rule is a big limitation, but they can still pull off a memorable contest in the first three days. There should be a live streaming, check the Aloha Classic page.


Wind map at noon.


North Pacific shows a strong NW fetch that is unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) partially blocked by the Kuril Islands.


Here's a detail of the block induced by that chain of islands. There's some corridors here and there.


South Pacific has a partially blocked fetch S of New Zealand.


Morning sky.