Trades Call It a Wrap

Saturday pretty much saw the end of our week-long stretch of good wind here. Winds started out light in the morning, but by early afternoon were averaging in the upper teens - enough to get me going on my 5.8 . Sailed Lowers in surf that was anywhere from knee-high small-kine stuff to some occasional head-high sets. Wind kicked in to about 20 for about an hour, making for some good powered-up sailing and wave-riding. Got some good rides and a couple of unintentional 2/3 backloops. I've found out over the past few days that smacking the water 2/3 of the way through a backloop isn't really that bad. Each time I've ended up going straight up off of a vertically pitching wave and been spun around and gone into the water nose first and hooked in. You'd think that would really suck, but it hasn't really been bad. I've been told if I just stayed tucked through it and rotate another 90 degrees I'd pretty much have a full backloop rotation. Pretty cool. I'm almost feeling confident to intentionally try them.

Anyway, light winds have returned to Maui, probably through at least this week so it's time to catch up on work and chores.