Still basically windy here the last few days although the wind has been kind of funky at times. I opted out of sailing Wednesday and Thursday but got reports of 5.0ish conditions for most guys and flat conditions.
Yesterday was setting up to be a near carbon copy of the previous two days but with the addition of a very tiny north swell.
Wind ended up being very frustratingly light and onshore, had to really work the 5.3 to get planing and couldn’t make it up to Uppers where there were some small, but clean waist-high waves. If you were a smaller guy and had a 5.8 you were scoring the small swell.
Looks like favorable set up for trade winds to dominate over the next several days. Not even any of our normal August tropical storms in the picture.
Somewhat of a happy ending on the lost gear mentioned in the last post. Board, boom and half a mast washed into the harbor and were reunited with the owner. The sail apparently sunk at some point during the self-rescue. A lesson to be learned here is to write your name and phone number on your gear. I’ve heard of several lost board episodes on the north shore over the last few years here. In each case, the board has drifted down wind and ended up at Kahului harbor where a harbor worker or fisherman or boater finds it. If it’s got your name and number on it, chances are good you’ll be reunited with it.
