Monthly Archives: January 2005

Well January turned out to be a pretty pathetic month for sailing this year. It’s rarely if ever stellar here in January. I thought last year was bad only getting 7 days in. This month, I only got 4. Ended … Continue reading →

Apparently it’s official. Just found the announcement on the Gaastra website. Gotta say I don’t understand Gaastra’s logic in this. Having watched The Team at work at Kanaha for awhile now, I can’t imagine a more-hardworking, methodical, professional team of … Continue reading →

Winds are still pretty light and mostly SE here on Maui. Some light NE winds did kick in on the north shore on Wednesday. So light I didn’t even realize it until looking at the iWindsurf graphs the next day. … Continue reading →

From today’s National Weather Service Honolulu weather forecast discussion: “AS FOR PERSISTENT TRADE WINDS…FORGET ABOUT IT.” Let this be a lesson to anyone planning a windsurfing vacation to Maui during the winter months. In a word … don’t!

Since the forecast today didn’t look promising for wind, we decided to try to surf. Surf at Lowers when we got there in the early afternoon looked waist to shoulder high, with light winds. Great. Got changed and started paddling … Continue reading →