Friday 1 12 2024 morning call

Hookipa yesterday, starting with Ian Walsh.

A kiter lost his board and Francisco Goya found it and somehow managed to fix it to the other side of the boom with the footstraps.

He managed to get out through sets like this with no little effort.

And delivered the board to the kiter who had drifted quite a bit downwind. The lifeguards in the meantime got there too, but only supervised the scene.

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion. South shore

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No southerly energy at Barbers, but there's leftover Kona windswell and no onshores. Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

NW101

• • • 13.7ft

      , 11s, N 350º
    • 9.1ft

      , 15s, NNW 335º
    • 5.7ft

      , 9s, N 0º

Waimea

• • • 17.9ft

      , 13s, NW 320º
    • 3.8ft

      , 17s, NW 315º
    • 4.5ft

      , 7s, NW 325º

Pauwela

• • • 8.6ft

      , 11s, NNW 330º
    • 3.7ft

      , 8s, NNW 340º
    • 1.7ft

      , 17s, NW 320º

Big numbers at the upstream buoys. Below are the maps of January 9 through 12 showing the large fetch that eventually originated the local low that just gave us three days of Kona and that also generated the longer period energy arriving simultaneously to the short period one. Home guess for Hookipa is around double overhead and tons of waves. The wind is clocking around to onshore, but in the early morning might still be light enough for the waves to be decent. Nothing like the offshores of the last few days though and trending to possible victory at sea conditions in the afternoon if the onshores get strong.

 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