SUP foiling on the south shore was my discipline of choice yesterday. The wind was light at Kanaha, but this lady made it look easy thanks to her 5.0 F1 Strike. F1 have made some pretty radical choices in their design and that makes their wings excellent in some categories and pretty bad in others. Here's my very personal list of both:
Excellent: low end power, pumping effectiveness, light weight, stability when luffed by the hip.
Pretty bad: high end, lost of shape when overpowered, flimsy handles, tips touch the water more often than lower aspects wings (obviously more noticeable in the big sizes). I love my 4.2, I just got to make sure I'm never overpowered on it.
5am Surfline
significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
Remotely generated angular spreading long period energy shows 2ft 17s at Barbers, but all those adjectives spell low consistency. But there's also a couple of feet of 9s and 11s and those were clearly overlapping yesterday. Check the Lahaina
webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
Pauwela
2.8ft @ 7s from 15° (NNE)
Another flat day on the north shore.
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, 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.
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