Wednesday 12 11 19 morning call

Yesterday I did: longboard surfing, SUP foiling, a windfoil lesson and a wave windfoiling session. Daniel Silvagni did an amazing job repairing the Stewart I snapped in two pieces a month ago. From now on, I'm gonna call him El Mago.


NW swell was pretty solid at Hookipa. This is my pick of Jimmie Hepp's  album.


This is Matias again in a bottom to top turn combo at sunset.

4am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
No southerly energy at the buoys, but it could be masked by the NW wrap. No point at reporting those readings either, as the wrap at Lanai will be completely different from what eventually gets on Maui's south shore (not much, imo). The only way to find out what's in the water is to check the Lahaina webcam.

North shore
NW101
10.4ft @ 14s from 343° (NNW)

Waimea
7.9ft @ 15s from 334° (NNW)

3.2ft @ 10s from 329° (NW)

Pauwela
7.4ft @ 15s from 328° (NW)

5.7ft @ 13s from 327° (NW)

Solid continuous uninterrupted NW energy on tap, as the graph of the NW buoy shows: 10 feet average with little ups and dows. The XL swell is not hitting yet (at least it's not reported), that's good news for the Jaws contest that has been called on for Thursday. Pauwela shows 7.4ft 15s, Hookipa too big for most surfers, choose other spots, unless you can handle double overhead plus.

Wind map at noon
       
     

Kahului Tides
High Tide     High Tide     Low Tide     Low Tide       Sunrise   Sunset

2:30a  +2.6   1:09p  +1.5   8:47a  +0.9   7:42p  -0.5    6:54a   5:48p    

North Pacific has a NW fetch. Feels like there's been a fetch in that position for the last 5 days in a row...


Nothing from the south.


Morning sky.