Anomolous Waves

Although it's not really wave season here on Maui's north shore, yesterday at Uppers we got some weird little swell rolling in from the north at the first upwind break from the launch at Uppers. Little waist- to shoulder-high sets rolling into a little 100 foot section of the break. All the other breaks upwind at Camp One and Sprecks seemed to be the typical summertime direction, but this one little break was producing some fun, albeit sloppy, little waves. Of course, every windsurfer who sails Uppers found this out and there was some stiff competition for this little wave.

The wind was pretty good 4.5 up until around 2:30 or so when someone turned the wind dial up another notch and the wind started to crank again. I was glad to have gotten a lunchtime session in yesterday before it went insane.

Got another race video from Steve R. showing the 40- 49 age division racing in last Saturday's Maui Race Series. Windsurfing slalom action at it's best as they blast around the bouy. From what I hear, slalom racing is going to be a new event on next year's PWA tour. Check out the video for a preview of coming attractions on the PWA world tour.