Saturday 5 13 23 morning call

Couple of shots of a windsurf session happened up the coast yesterday.

I'm nursing my second non impact related hip injury due to foiling. Too many downwind runs while using the footstrap setup I use for waves made for a pretty bad inflamed back hip flexor that will require some time off. It taught me that downwinding the back strap system needs to be different. Next time I'm going to try with a long strap and/or two hook straps.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion.

South shore
Barbers

• • 3.1ft

    , 12s, SSW 200º

Lanai

• • 2.8ft

    , 11s, SSW 210º
  • 0.9ft

    , 14s, S 190º
  
  

Both buoys show some southerly energy. Check the Lahaina webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

NW001

• 6.2ft

  , 12s, N 355º
• 4ft

  , 9s, N 355º

Hanalei

• 7.1ft

  , 11s, NNW 335º
• 3.3ft

  , 13s, NNW 340º

Waimea

• • 6.1ft

    , 13s, N 350º
  • 3.4ft

    , 10s, NNW 345º

New NNW to N swell is at the buoys. Below are the maps of May 10 to 13 that show the fetch that generated it. As you can see, the fetch was extremely well oriented and in place for a few days, so this should be a fairly big, consistent and long lasting swell that will hit our north shore as well as the upper west side (fun size for Honolua, please send me pics if you go). Home guess for Hookipa is around double overhead and no wind in the first half of the morning. Ian Walsh's Menehune contest is up at Pavils today and tomorrow.

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.