Hookipa yesterday morning.
Hookipa yesterday afternoon.
Referring to his quest to make prone foiling DW easier, Dave Kalama just posted a little video that had these words in the description: "Being challenged to find creative solutions, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always evolving and getting better. That’s where the real gold is."
You can apply that to everything. For example, I just elevated my roof racks of about one inch in order to be able to put a longboard underneath them and make room for another board inside. The system worked, but introduced one little annoying vibration from the bags. After a couple of failed attempts to locate it and fix it, yesterday I mounted the Gopro on the roof and drove home like that. The vibration is now spotted and I know how to fix it.
This is a shot before I left from the kite beach parking lot, where yesterday I had two SUP foiling and one wave winging session (about four hours on foil). Had someone told me a few years ago that I would spend a whole day there, I would have not believed it...
4am Surfline
significant buoy readings and discussion.
South shore
Barbers
0.7ft @ 20s from 193° (SSW)
Thanks to the lack of strong NW energy, Barbers can register small long period SSW energy. Below are the maps of Jan 21 through 23 that show the fetch that generated it. A fairly strong one, but aiming to our east, so we're only getting the angular spreading of the swell. That, together with the long journey, will make the arrival of the sets particularly inconsistent.
Check the Lahaina
and Kihei webcam if interested, for size,
conditions and consistency.
North shore
Hanalei
Waimea
Kaneohe Bay
2.3ft @ 8s from 55° (ENE)
Hilo
4.2ft @ 9s from 61° (ENE)
Transition day. The old WNW energy is definitely winding down at the upstream buoys, suggesting the smallest day since the beginning of the year. It's going to be a brief pause though, as a new long period NW swell is already showing with tiny readings at Hanalei and Waimea. The Pacioos forecast two pictures below shows this new swell in light blue and peaking tomorrow at around 5.5ft 15s from 315 (same values as Surfline).
Below are the maps of Jan 26 to 28 that show the fetch that originated it. Home guess for Hookipa this morning is chest to head high and clean. Bigger at sunset.
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.
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