Thursday 1 23 20 morning call

Hookipa had moments of nineness yesterday morning. This is Tanner Hendrickson who is seeded in round three of the Sunset Beach contest (together with Cody Young, who was out too). Cody's brother Levi did great in Oahu winning two heats, but the sensation of the day was Jackson Bunch's 9.5 ride, which you can admire on this page. I think they didn't give him a 10 because he could have got barreled earlier, but the drop was ridiculously difficult. No contest today, it's too big.

This is Hookipa at sunset: extremely clean, double overhead long period lines.



4am significant buoy readings and discussion
South shore
Only NW wrap at Barbers, we have to check the Lahaina webcam to see what's in the water. It seems that there could be the occasional wrap, like in the picture below.


North shore
NW001
10.9ft @ 15s from 290° (WNW)

Waimea
12.1ft @ 17s from 316° (NW)

Pauwela
10.6ft @ 17s from 319° (NW)

The XL NW swell is in full swing. Below are the graphs of NW and Pauwela together with the Surfline forecast, which was, as noted yesterday, about 12 hours late and a little too big (up to 15ft, while it might only reach 12ft). Doesn't change much for the common mortals, waves will be too big almost everywhere on the north shore (even though I saw some surfers on the Kahana webcam), other than extremely protected spots like the harbor. The west side will be the call, if you're looking for more manageable sizes.


Many international surfers are on the island: big wave Peruvian Surfer Miguel Tudela was at Hi-Tech yesterday buying cartridges for his inflatable vests, Yuri Soledade bought some padding for his ski and Kelly Slater was spotted at the airport. It's going to be a fantastic day of big waves, sunshine and no wind all day. Jaws will probably be the center of the media attention and might easily be pretty crowded.

Wind map at noon
       
     

Kahului Tides
High Tide     High Tide     Low Tide     Low Tide       Sunrise   Sunset
2:28a  +2.7   1:10p  +1.2   9:09a  +0.8   7:31p  -0.5    7:06a   6:12p

North Pacific has a massive NW fetch that pretty much takes all the ocean NW of us (14ft 16s predicted by Surfline on Sunday).


South Pacific has a strong fetch oriented towards Central America. Only a small portion is oriented towards us, we might get a bit of angular spreading.


Morning sky.