Tuesday 6 22 21 morning call

Makena side yesterday morning.


Foiling on the Lahaina side was a lot more fun than surfing for me this time.

Keahi De Aboitiz.

Hookipa mid afternoon.

Hookipa at sunset. Those kids were ripping on their wings.


I was told this is Cash Berzolla.


Guess they had a photoshoot.

4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
3.1ft @ 13s from 181° (S)

Lanai

2.3ft @ 14s from 180° (S)
0.6ft @ 20s from 172° (S)

My favorite part of a decent size south swell is when it goes down to 12-14s (as long as there's still a couple of feet at the buoy, of course), as most people are happy with the abundance of waves of the past days and prefer to rest. In addition to that, most of the spots on the Lahaina side like that medium period much better than longer ones.
Half a foot 20s at Lanai is an auspicious sign for the rest of the week... shouldn't be flat.
Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore
Waimea
3.6ft @ 10s from 332° (NNW)

Mokapu
4ft @ 10s from 52° (ENE)


Pauwela

3.2ft @ 9s from 49° (NE)

2.3ft @ 11s from 346° (NNW)

NW energy disappeared from all the upstream buoys but Waimea, that's a sign that it's going to fade throughout the day. But notice the 3.2ft 9s NE windswell (4ft 10s at Mokapu). Pat Caldwell doesn't miss anything and that's what he wrote about it:

Starting last Thursday 6/17, the California heat low combined with high pressure offshore in the NE Pacific set up a long fetch of strong to near gale breezes near California aimed well SE of Hawaii. The winds bending around the high pressure were better aimed at Hawaii in the fresh to strong bracket within about 1000-2000 nm away 6/17-20. Models show the pattern weakening in coming days.

This could provide a remote wind swell from 45-65 degrees with breakers to a notch under the trade wind swell average. It should pick up on Tuesday 6/22 and hold into Friday. It is expected to fall off Saturday 6/26.

Below are again the maps of June 17 through 21. The fetch is the one NE of us with no arrows. As I wrote yesterday, the red arrow fetch is the one that provided us with yesterday and today's NW energy, the one with the blue arrow will provide us with another small pulse starting tomorrow and peaking Wednesday.
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Between the two small swells (NW and NE), my home guess for Hookipa is for around chest to shoulder high. Eastern exposures should have similar sizes too.

Forecast and energy spectrum of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page.

Wind map at noon. The other ones can be found here (click on animation of the 10 meter column).

Fetches map (circles legend: red: direct aim, blue: angular spreading, black: blocked) 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.