2005

As the last day of 2005 comes to a close here on Maui, one inevitably looks back on the windsurfing that the year brought. Overall, I'd say it was a pretty good year for sailing on Maui. The stats;

I logged 152 days of sailing in 2005, 3 less than I did in 2004. By my count, I missed about 65 days of sailable wind due to injury, work, snoberry or plain old inertia. By my reckoning that's 217 days of sailable wind in 2005, but I'm a bit of a wind snob and I often don't even bother looking at what the wind is doing in Kihei.

My better half logged a total of 185 days of windsurfing, and Maui Windsurfing video guy, Steve Robinson, reported in with 195 days of sailing in 2005. Steve says he lost 61 days of sailing due to various injuries. By his calculations, there were 256 days of sailable wind on Maui in 2005.

The busiest months were April through July, with nearly every day of those months being windy. By contrast, January sucked with 5 days of sailable wind and this December has been pretty lame as well, with 7 - 10 days of wind, depending on your weight and how big you're willing to rig. We haven't had anything over the mid-teens since last Sunday and several of those days didn't get above 10.

It's been a prett good wave season this fall. Surf this month has been epic. Too bad there's been so little wind to play in it.

What does 2006 hold in store for us? Who knows. Chances of good wind are statistically low in January, though it looks like we might get a bump up tomorrow and then later on next week.

Happy New Year to one and all and here's wishing everyone lots of good time on the water in 2006!

Aloha