Monday 1 29 24 morning call

Hookipa yesterday morning.

The afternoon saw plenty action. Here's the usual aerial precision of Browsinho.

Liam Coralle chose The point to put up his show.

Sliding that F-one SK8 on the lip.

This is a very cool move by Cash Berzolla. He was riding the wave (you can still see the wake), went deep in the bottom turn, jibed and now is aiming at the lip in the top left of the picture.

And the he hit it like that, throwing an aerial move afterwards. Never seen it before and very cool.

In this picture, he's another example of a regular footer holding the wing by the front hand. He will have to lift the wing when he goes back towards the wave for the top turn.

Here instead he's holding it by the back hand and, imo, that looks better with the wing getting less in the way.


Front hand holding on this one.


Here he just landed an aerial move and he's holding the wing with the back hand and the rail of the board with the front one. I guess at that level you choose which hand to use based on the wave and on the moves you want to do on it. I will have to ask him if my guess is correct and what are the criteria for choosing one hand over the other.

7am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion. South shore

No southerly energy at Barbers, but plenty kona windswell and onshore flow. Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

NW101

• • • 9.4ft

      , 14s, WNW 300º
    • 6.7ft

      , 8s, W 270º
    • 4.2ft

      , 10s, WNW 295º

Waimea

• • • 9.2ft

      , 11s, NW 315º
    • 1.6ft

      , 17s, WNW 295º

Pauwela

• • 
    
  • • 5.1ft

      , 13s, NW 325º
    • 3.7ft

      , 11s, NW 325º
  • 
    

WNW went up a notch at the upstream buoys. Home guess for Hookipa is around head and a half to double and more kona. The Pipe master's contest waiting period starts today, but they're going to wait for the kona to stop blowing, which should happen tomorrow mid day.

 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