Thanksgiving Holidays Sailing

Thanksgiving day dawned sunny and warm on Maui, with barely a stitch of wind. Despite lack of wind, I was thankful. - thankful that I live in a sunny warm climate, thankful that I wasn't traveling over this holiday season. Thankful that I would be spending my Thanksgiving, wind or not, at Kanaha Beach Park with fellow windsurfers.

The wind did build slightly later in the day. During a brief gust, I rigged my 5.8, but by the time I got to the water it was way too light to bother with. Others were out sailing on big gear. Those who slogged out past the reef reported stronger winds, 6.0ish for average guys.

Yesterday was very similar. Light wind. The pager was reporting north, but it was actually pretty east. I slogged down to Lowers on my 5.8 and big board to play in the head high waves. Amazingly Lowers was pretty uncrowded. I sailed pretty underpowered for a bit, until the swell built to logo high and I got a bit uncomfortable being so underpowered in the surf. Went out again later in the day. Wind was stronger on the outside, waves seemed to drop in size a bit at Lowers though there were still plenyty of mast-high + waves at Uppers.