As I reported from the beach twice, yesterday morning the waves at Hookipa came up earlier than I expected. Fortunately I managed to squeeze a sesh in before it got too big for my taste. After which, I took some pics: this is Middles.
This is Matt Meola ripping at Lanes. The waves were beautifully peeling down the line and he couldn't find a ramp for his aerials. Here's a quit chat we had when he got out of the water:
"Hey Matt, no ramps for you today?"
"Nah, too soft"
"Does that mean you don't enjoy doing turns anymore?"
"Oh, I like doing turns, but on steeper sections! It was too mushy out there."
I got out of the water because it was getting too big and he found it too soft and mushy... it's all relative I guess, the skill gap is ample.
If some of Jimmie Hepp's subscribers complained about him not being at Hookipa, I take the full blame as I texted him that Hookipa was going to get too big for windsurfing (someone did sail out eventually) and instead sent him to Honolua to shoot the Legends of the Bay contest, which was won by a ripping Ian Gentil. This is my pick of Jimmie's album.
Honolua's shadow line sits at 335, the swell was from around 315, amazing how long period swells wrap around lands.
There was action everywhere, this Zach Schettewi at Jaws. Photo by FishBowlDiaries. They're editing the windsurfing shots, stay tuned tomorrow.
4am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers, check the Lahaina webcam. There's some small, kinda useless wrap from the NW swell. That's a good sign for the second day of the contest at the Bay, which today will see all the remaining categories (other than Open Men).
North shore
NW001
11.3ft @ 16s from 314° (NW)
Waimea
13.1ft @ 17s from 319° (NW)
Pauwela
11.1ft @ 17s from 318° (NW)
Below is the graph of NW and Pauwela together with yesterday's Surfline forecast. You can see how the swell picked locally in the mid morning, much earlier than the Surfline forecast and even earlier than my guessed red dotted line. On the NW graph you can notice how it's staying at elevated levels of size, just slowly comind down a second or two in the period. That means another full day of big waves for Maui's north shore. Hookipa too big for the common mortals, seek sheltered/shadowed spots, if you're one of them.
Wind map at noon
Kahului Tides
High Tide High Tide Low Tide Low Tide Sunrise Sunset
3:55a +2.6 3:06p +1.3 10:27a +0.6 9:12p -0.2 7:06a 6:14p
North Pacific has another long NW fetch. Next swell is predicted by Surfline to peak at 9ft 15s from 309, but there will be no shortage of waves in the meantime.
Nothing from the south.
Morning sky.
1 comment:
What was Matt riding? Like a 5'6 =)
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