North Shore Wind Search

Pascal Bronnimann at Kuau

Light trade winds returned yesterday and I set out on a north shore search for the best conditions. I thought the best shot for powered up sailing would be Kihei and that turned out to be the case, but Kihei rarely appeals to me. I started out by checking Hookipa since the iWindsurf readings there looked good. Wrong! Turned out to be much lighter than advertised on iWindsurf, plus there was a surf competition going on and all the Hookipa breaks were teaming with surfers.

Downwind at Lanes there were no surfers out, but it was pretty light. Further downwind I could see a few sailors out at Kuaua, so I headed there to check it out. Still super light, but three sailors, including Goya Sails’ Pascal Bronnimann and Jake Miller were out doing the slog and surf, managing to catch some rides. Got a few photos of that…

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Continuing on my downwinder I stopped at Baby Beach and Sugar Cove. At Sugar Cove I could see a couple of sailors limping along at Sprecks. Still too light in my book. On to Kanaha.

At Kanaha there were several people out on the water, all slogging, most just outside of Weird Wave. With northerly winds, Weird Wave was actually looking rideable. But with barely any whitecaps at all, I opted to head back upcountry to escape the hot and muggy temperatures.

Conditions are looking a lot more promising for the north shore this morning. It’s already reading 20mph from the northeast at Kanaha. It will probably go up and down a few times between now and the 11am start time, but that’s a really good sign that we’ll have some powered up sailing on the north shore today.