Thursday 8 6 20 morning call

I'm letting go of some of my foiling gear. Good combo if you want to learn how to winGfoil or winDfoil or SUP foil and don't feel like spending 3 grands on new gear.

Did my downwind run with the wing n.3 yesterday... one of the most fun things I've ever done. Much easier than a SUP foiling run, can't even compare them really. I like and will continue to do both, saving the last ones for the really windy days.

Skills required for wing downwinders: comfortable jibes, comfortable prolonged toe side reaches and a ride upwind. Experience in riding waves with a foil would be a nice plus, but not exactly mandatory. You're just going to overfoil a bit more if you don't know how to ride waves. Long masts help.

Here's a short video of a downwind run in Cape Town, as I think I posted already this wonderful 15 minutes Maliko one already... or did I?


3am significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers

3.6ft @ 7s from 162° (SSE)

1.8ft @ 14s from 194° (SSW)

Lanai

2.2ft @ 7s from 151° (SSE)

2ft @ 14s from 190° (S)

 

There we go, 2ft 14s is a good reading, but check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency, as not all 2ft 14s are the same. This one, for example, looks like a poor one. So poor, that if I would watch the webcam without knowing the buoy readings, I would never guess 2st 14s...

Webcam over buoys, always. Webcam over everything, really. Look at it: it looks flat for most of the time and only once in a long while there's a beautiful wave like this. Worth the drive depends on you. But at least, if you check the webcam first, you'll make an informed decision.

North shore
Pauwela
5ft @ 8s from 73° (ENE)            

Small waves at Hookipa, bigger on eastern exposures.

Wind map at noon (the other ones can be found at link n.-2 of GP's meteo websites list in the right column).


Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: apparent direct aim, but out of the great circle ray map, so not 100% sure).
North Pacific (about 4 days travel time from the NW corner of the North Pacific):


South Pacific (about 7 days travel time from east/west of New Zealand):


Morning sky.