Tuesday 12 17 19 morning call

The Pipe contest didn't run yesterday, it might today. This is another incredible image by Liquid barrel, this time it's Kalani Chapman.


Kanaha was a lot of fun for winDfoiling on the waves, here's Dan Taylor winGfoiling instead. No matter how much emphasis I put on the D or the G, it's still confusing for the listener and most times I need to explain the difference anyway.

No confusion instead when talking about SUP foiling. Here's a video put together by GoFoil showing two masterful team riders: Dave Kalama and Eddie Ogata. I have both in mind when I do my lines.

4am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
No southerly energy at the buoys, hence not much at the Lahaina webcam, check it out yourself.

North shore
NW101
7.7ft @ 16s from 325° (NW)

Waimea
6.4ft @ 16s from 317° (NW)

Pauwela
8.7ft @ 8s from 61° (ENE)

6.9ft @ 18s from 321° (NW)

New solid NW swell on tap today, with a just as solid ENE windswell on top. Below are the graphs of NW and Pauwela, together with yesterday's Surfline forecast. As you can see, in the end this last one was pretty accurate. Notice how even the windswell line (purple on Tueday) matches perfectly what recorded by Pauwela. The NW swell went up to 12ft at the NW buoy, so we can expect it to keep building in Maui throughout the day. Hookipa too big (and windy!) for most, look for sheltered places.

In case you're interested in the evolution of the fetch that made this swell, here's the maps of Dec 12, 13 and 14. As usual, there will be a slow shift to a more northerly direction as the swell arrives, reflecting the movement that the fetch did over the ocean.


Wind map at noon
       

Kahului Tides
High Tide     High Tide     Low Tide     Low Tide       Sunrise   Sunset
6:45a  +2.4   6:28p  +0.9   2:28p  +0.7  11:47p  +0.5    6:58a   5:50p
 

Yesterday's NW fetch is now only very partially aiming to us, as most of it is aiming to the US west coast (we might get some angular spreading). Strong windswell fetch too.


Little Tasman Sea swell won't do much for us.


Morning sky.