After the insanely ballistic conditions we saw here on Maui earlier this week , the conditions over the last couple of days have been relatively mellow. Most people wouldn’t consider 20 – 25 knots mellow, but this is Maui.
After several days of nuking winds, Friday morning was a welcome relief with relatively mild wind blowing [...]
You gotta love it when we get a late season north swell on Maui’s north shore. Wave season is pretty much over for the summer on Maui’s north shore but we always seem to get one or two last swells the end of May and early June. We got one of those day. Super fun [...]
Maui is definitely transitioning into summer time mode with lots of sunny skies and teeny tiny surf on the north shore. Some really fun days the last couple of days despite the lack of surf.
Spectacular sunny day on Maui yesterday. After initially starting out pretty strong, the wind dropped down to about 19 mph and [...]
Still nuking on Maui but at least the wind was a bit more consistent today. Actually went out on 5.0 initially. Way too much. In for 4.5. Very powered up. Some nice rollers outside the break at Camp One and Uppers and some decent smooth, backside riding up at Camp One. The session got cut [...]
While sitting at home waiting for the rain to clear on the north shore and the wind to settle into anything resembling consistency, I thought I’d cruise over to Vimeo and check out the stats on my video downloads there. Somewhere along the way I got sidetracked by clicking on the Hookipa tag and found [...]
Gorgeous sunny day on Maui yesterday. Blue skies, hardly any squalls to speak of, steady 20 knots. A great day to be out on the water. Not the greatest surf conditions – mostly some sloppy waist high stuff at Uppers. A lot of people think that Maui is just about wave sailing. But make no [...]
Maui’s long streak of light or no trade winds has continued for the past week. That’s not to say there’s no wind though. The last few days we’ve had Kona winds – winds from the southwest rather than our normal northeast trade winds.
Winds looked strongest at Kihei yesterday with the sensor there reporting averages of [...]
Plus size waves on Maui’s north shore the past few days. Big surf on Tuesday with Hookipa being mostly closed out. Lowers, Kanaha, logo- to mast-high. Uppers, mast-high and bigger, adrenaline inducing sets. Here’s a quick undedited video of Uppers on Tuesday. Don’t adjust your audio, this one’s got no audio track.
Both wind and waves [...]
Super fun day out at Uppers yesterday, perfectly powered 2 hour session on 5.0. Lots of fun logo-high waves and miracle of miracles didn’t even get snaked by anyone. Got on the water a little before noon and the first hour was the most consistent. A bit of inconsistency in the sets overall, but just [...]
Kind of a strange sailing day yesterday A new north swell arrived, but rain squalls throughout the day wreaked havoc with the wind at Kanaha. Timing was everything. Get out and get some during the half hour periods just before a squall. Then the squall would start hitting, winds would amp up another 5 to [...]
