Friday 7 18 25 morning call

Today there's the Maui to Molokai race, you can follow the dots here.
Following and documenting a race like that is technically challenging. This is an excellent video that shows some spectacular action on a downwinder: Jack Ho at the Gorge with a relatively small board. He will be in today's race, but he won't do a single turn like those, as he's going to try to go straight as fast as possible. So, even if they were able to do a live streaming, it wouldn't be quite as exciting from the foiling point of view. It would be better than the dots though...

6am Surfline significant buoy readings and discussion. South shore
Barbers

• • • 1.6ft

      , 13s, S 170º

Lanai

• • • 2.5ft

      , 11s, SSE 165º
    • 0.5ft

      , 15s, S 190º

Small southerly energy at the buoys. Check the Kihei webcam if interested, for size, conditions and consistency.

North shore

Mokapu

• • • • • • 4.2ft

            , 9s, ENE 65º
          • 4.2ft

            , 5s, ENE 70º

ENE windswell only in the water. Home guess for Hookipa is around waist to chest high.

 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