Broken Record
One of the things I've looked forward to in living on Maui is logging a lot of days on the water. On the mainland, my personal record for days of windsurfing in a calendar year was 62 days. Yesterday I tied that record and today I beat it. And it's only June.
Yesterday I got invited back up to Honeybuns (near Camp One) to launch and sail. It was a late afternoon session. I got on the water with my 4.5 at around 3:00 and sailed well powered for half an hour or so in the big rolling swell outside the reef. It's amazing how different the water is just a half mile upwind from Kanaha. Much bigger swell making for great fun carving and riding down them and launching huge air off of them.
The wind backed off a bit and I rigged my 5.0 and went out again and the wind decided to pick back up. Oh well, flattened it out and hung on.
Today was mostly good 4.5 conditions at Kanaha. The wind dropped just as I launched at around 2:00, but kicked back in after some rain showers inland cleared out.
If you were looking for nuclear flat-water sailing today, Kihei was the place to be. Wind was averaging in the mid-30s most of the day with gusts in the mid-40s. The lull from hell hit Kihei at about 3:30 though. One minute it was 35 gusting to 45, the next it was averging 15 gusting to 20. I pity anyone out on their 3.0 when that happened.
Winds are forecast to drop off a notch for the next couple of days, but still be sailable, in the 10 - 20 range. Just in time for the next Maui Race Series race on Saturday.
Yesterday I got invited back up to Honeybuns (near Camp One) to launch and sail. It was a late afternoon session. I got on the water with my 4.5 at around 3:00 and sailed well powered for half an hour or so in the big rolling swell outside the reef. It's amazing how different the water is just a half mile upwind from Kanaha. Much bigger swell making for great fun carving and riding down them and launching huge air off of them.
The wind backed off a bit and I rigged my 5.0 and went out again and the wind decided to pick back up. Oh well, flattened it out and hung on.
Today was mostly good 4.5 conditions at Kanaha. The wind dropped just as I launched at around 2:00, but kicked back in after some rain showers inland cleared out.
If you were looking for nuclear flat-water sailing today, Kihei was the place to be. Wind was averaging in the mid-30s most of the day with gusts in the mid-40s. The lull from hell hit Kihei at about 3:30 though. One minute it was 35 gusting to 45, the next it was averging 15 gusting to 20. I pity anyone out on their 3.0 when that happened.
Winds are forecast to drop off a notch for the next couple of days, but still be sailable, in the 10 - 20 range. Just in time for the next Maui Race Series race on Saturday.
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