In the last 14 days, I did 14 downwinGers (one day I skipped, one day I did double). To find a similar moment of intense passion for a discipline, I probably have to go back to when I started windsurfing about 40 years ago back in Italy. Here's the things I love about it:
- not having to deal with others, I can focus exclusively on reading the ever changing water around me and chose my lines accordingly. It's a quintessential example of "undisturbed going with the flow".
- it's like snowboarding on virgin powder slopes, with the difference that the slopes are very dynamically changing under your board as they form
- the gear tuning game adds an post session intellectual aspect to something that is exclusively about feeling while you're doing it. And the tuning possibilities are endless. Thanks to that, it's new every time and it's very, very exciting!
Even though I obviously got better at it, it's pretty evident to me that the margin of improvements are still massive.
Here's a condensed version of yesterday's downwinger, which was quite intense.
Hookipa late afternoon.
4am Surfline
significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
3.1ft @ 15s from 182° (S)
South swell holding nicely at Barbers. Check the Lahaina
webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
Kaneohe Bay
7.5ft @ 10s from 63° (ENE)
Windswell still pumping. Home guess for Hookipa is for overhead sloppy waves, bigger on eastern exposures.
Forecast 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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