8am hookipa is mostly head high, no wind but sloppy. 

4.5

Friday 12 31 21 morning call

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Hookipa yesterday morning.

Hookipa yesterday afternoon.

Facebook memories brought up this photo from 9 years ago. The Starboard POD 7.4 was the most fun high performance SUP board I've ever ridden, but unfortunately I don't own that board anymore. I will look into the many 2022 models we just received at Hi-Tech to see if there's something similar to it, otherwise it might be time to have a similar one custom shaped.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers, check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency. There actually are waves, but the southerly flow makes them crumble.

North shore
NW101
3.4ft @ 13s from 307° (WNW)

Hanalei

8.7ft @ 9s from 60° (ENE)

3ft @ 14s from 314° (NW)

Hilo
7.2ft @ 9s from 48° (NE)

Kaneohe Bay
7.5ft @ 9s from 58° (ENE)

The Windguru table below shows the change in the weather that is happening. After almost two weeks of strong high pressure blocking the development of the usual NW swells, the north Pacific is about to assume a more typical wintery configuration. The high pressure will rise up to the Gulf of Alaska and a Kona storm is developing to our immediate west, bringing either calm winds or southerly flows and allowing the NW fetches to get closer to us. The first half of January will see much bigger waves and less wind than what we've seen in the second half of December.

NW and Hanalei show around 3ft 14s of NW energy, while the easterly windswell is still elevated (it will decline very slowly in the next few days, check the light blue dotted line in the Pauwela forecast below). Home guess for Hookipa is head to head and a half and no wind till later in the morning when a bit of Kona wind might find its way there.

Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here.

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.

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.

7.15am hookipa has head high windswell waves occasionally bigger and poor shape. 

3.5

Thursday 12 30 21 morning call

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Nice bottom to top turn combo at Hookipa yesterday by what appears to be Nora Liotta (not 100% sure though).

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers, check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency. As you will see, we didn't get much at all from that Cloudbreak swell. But because of the ESE direction of the trades, the wind maps are calling for a windless day on the whole Lahaina side today, so it's tiny but very clean.


North shore
Hanalei

9.2ft @ 9s from 60° (ENE)

Hilo
7ft @ 9s from 58° (ENE)

Kaneohe Bay
7.2ft @ 10s from 52° (ENE)

The buoys only show the still elevated ENE windswell, but there should also be small NW energy coming from the fetch shown in the first of the maps in the collage below of the maps of Dec 26 through 29. Such energy should continue at small levels tomorrow and the day after and then possibly increase a bit on Sunday.

Below is the Surfline forecast showing 2ft 13 today and 2.2ft 14s tomorrow. Probably still too small to be noticed in the midst of the very consistent ENE windswell. Home guess for Hookipa is for head to occasionally head and a half.

Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here.

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.

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.

Wednesday 12 29 21 morning call

Thanks to Josh and Dawn for the donations.

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Hookipa yesterday early morning.

Later in the morning, Russ was the first to hit the water.

Steve joined shortly after.

Then Ian Gentil showed up.

Together with Kai Lenny and his photographer.

The rest of the windsurfing afternoon can be found in this album by Jimmie Hepp.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency, whatever was left of that Cloudbreak swell should be in the water by now... or not.


North shore
Hanalei

7.8ft @ 10s from 58° (ENE)

3.4ft @ 13s from 327° (NW)

Hilo
8ft @ 11s from 56° (ENE)

Kaneohe Bay

5.9ft @ 9s from 48° (NE)

4ft @ 6s from 52° (ENE)

NW swell wend down pretty quickly (as it did the originating fetch). Hanalei is still reading 3.4ft 13s, but the most dominant energy should be once again the NE to ENE one. Home guess for Hookipa is for head to head and a half.

Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here.

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.

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.

7.15am the mix of swells and a bit of wind make for rough conditions at hookipa. 

3.5

Tuesday 12 28 21 morning call

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Hookipa yesterday morning.


Hookipa yesterday mid day. Photo by Jimmie Hepp from this album.


Bernd at Hookipa at sunset.

5am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
No southerly energy at Barbers. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW101

10ft @ 10s from 77° (ENE)

6.4ft @ 13s from 321° (NW)

Hanalei

9.5ft @ 10s from 56° (ENE)

4.8ft @ 15s from 306° (WNW)

3.2ft @ 13s from 323° (NW)

Hilo

7.4ft @ 10s from 40° (NE)

5.7ft @ 12s from 25° (NNE)

Kaneohe Bay
8.9ft @ 10s from 38° (NE)

The NW swell we talked about yesterday peaked at the NW buoy at an impressive 10ft 16 mid day yesterday. The sets from this swell will be pretty solid (double overhead range) in the early morning locally. The shorter period NE to ENE swell continues to be pumping at all the buoys. The mix of the two will make for big and challenging waves at Hookipa.

Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here.

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.

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.

Monday 12 27 21 morning call

Thanks to Jon, Lorraine and Jan for the donations.

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Hookipa yesterday morning.

A busy moment at the Kahului harbor.

This is Cloudbreak at Christmas (photo by Joli Wilson).

This swell was created by the fetch in the collage below of the maps of Dec 21 and 22 on which I also put an F and an H to indicate the positions of Fiji and Hawaii. Is it going to make it all the way to us? Technically yes, but it ain't gonna look like that... 1.5ft 15s predicted by Surfline on Wednesday.

3am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
1.1ft @ 14s from 189° (S)

Small long period southerly energy at Barbers. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
NW101
5.2ft @ 14s from 308° (WNW)

N

9.8ft @ 10s from 49° (NE)

5.9ft @ 7s from 70° (ENE)

1.9ft @ 15s from 37° (NE)

Hanalei

8.8ft @ 10s from 37° (NE)

4.4ft @ 6s from 68° (ENE)

Hilo

6.6ft @ 9s from 26° (NNE)

6ft @ 11s from 25° (NNE)

Kaneohe Bay

8.6ft @ 10s from 34° (NE)

2.6ft @ 4s from 58° (ENE)

New WNW swell picked up at the NW buoys. Below are the maps of Dec 24 and 25 showing the fetch that generated it. The relative vicinity will make it the largest of a series of relatively small WNW to NW swells arriving throughout the week.

Below are the graph of NW101 together with the Surfline forecast showing a peak tomorrow morning at 4.1ft 15s from 308.

Hookipa (and, given the direction, only Hookipa) should see forerunners from this swell this afternoon. It's going to be hard to see them in the midst of the still elevated NNE to NE energies in the water. Maybe at sunset.
Home guess for Hookipa (and eastern exposures, which I forgot to mention in the last 10 days or so) is for the at this point "usual" head and a half average (but head to double range).

Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here.

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked, yellow: possibly over the ice sheet) from Windy.

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.