Tuesday 10 29 19 morning call

The single elimination of the Aloha Classic was completed yesterday in a day of massive waves, very difficult conditions and dramatic action. The winner was Antoine Martin, here in a photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album. The contest is not over yet, depending on conditions, in the next three days they can still run the double elimination of both men and women and the youths.


This morning I didn't have time to pick a photo from the other two albums I quickly found on Facebook: the FishBowlDiaries one and the IWT one. Here's a video quickly slapped together by Alex Aguera, who won the first edition in 1984 (the sound track shows that).
I did find this incredible shot by John Carter on the PWA site though. Don't think it was yesterday though.


With the high size and long period, the waves were able to wrap around Molokai and into Honolua.


3am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
Buoys still only showing NW energy, the only way to find out what's over there is to look at the Lahaina webcam.

North shore
NW101
7.4ft @ 9s from 349° (NNW)

7.3ft @ 14s from 313° (NW)

Waimea
8.1ft @ 15s from 325° (NW)

Pauwela
7.8ft @ 15s from 325° (NW)

3.6ft @ 13s from 320° (NW)

2.6ft @ 8s from 72° (ENE)

Buoys are still up, today it's going to be another day of big waves on the north shore. Hookipa way too big for most surfers, look elsewhere. There should be no wind at all, until 9-10am.

Wind map at noon surprisingly shows 15-20 knots at Hookipa, and if that really happens it's very possible that they will continue the contest.


North Pacific has a moderate NW fetch just offshore the Kuril islands. I apologize, lately I've been calling that the Aleutians, which instead are the chain I posted the zoomed in detail yesterday.


South Pacific has nothing of relevance.


Morning sky.