Kanaha yesterday afternoon. Imo, that's the proper way to hold a wing, vertical and parallel to your body instead of 45 degrees on top of your head (see below) to maximize power and upwind angle. With a harness, he would automatically go at least 5 more degrees upwind (and save a lot of work/stress to arms and hands).
This is how a see a lot of people holding their wings instead. It works, but it's not as efficient.
4am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
1.7ft @ 14s from 209° (SSW)
Small SSW energy at Barbers. Check the Lahaina
webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.
North shore
NW101
3.1ft @ 13s from 338° (NNW)
Hanalei
2.2ft @ 14s from 316° (NW)
Waimea
1.8ft @ 14s from 319° (NW)
Kaneohe Bay
3.4ft @ 8s from 69° (ENE)
Upstream buoys show small 14s NW energy. Because of that, Home guess for Hookipa is chest to head high.
Below are the maps of the last 6 days (Sept 28 through Oct 3). The blue arrow shows the fetch that, imo, originated it on Sept 30. The red arrow on the first map shows the typhoon Mindulle that generated much more westerly energy instead. I saw something at the SW buoy yesterday, so there should be something in the water or, as Pat Caldwell wrote: May be a bit of a WNW long-period swell from a donut next week, but for now all we have is the hole.
Kihei get some little lines though.
Forecast of Pauwela from this PACIOOS page. I know it's hard to read the small numbers (you can always enlarge them on your screen), but I wanted to point out that, just like the Surfline forecast (link n. 15 for the north shore), also this one shows the prediction for all the separate swells in the water (or at least, the biggest three). In this case, the red circles indicate the windswell, while the blue ones indicate the NW swell I talked about above. The time I pick to show them is 7am. of the current day.
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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