Winter Winds Blow Through Kanaha
Yesterday we saw a bit of a break in the day-after-day 4.0 winds we've been having and got a little reminder of what winter often brings. No, not waves - rain squalls and rainbows. Some moisture-laden clouds upstream brought up-and-down conditions ranging from 4.5 before and during the squalls to 5.3 conditions after the squalls. I opted to time my sailing for the clearing after the squalls and got some brief sailing in on 5.0 in the late afternoon.
Things are forecast to go ballistic this weekend. The forecasters are saying strong high pressure will pump up the winds into the full-blown nuclear range today through Monday with gusts into the 40s. At 8:00 the Kanaha sensor is already reporting 21 mph so it looks likely that this will pan out.
On to our Maui windsurfing video of the day. I spent the 4th of July on Tuesday sailing at Sprecks and took some video during a break. Winds were blowing in the 4.0 to 4.5 range during all this. Right after I finished taking the video I jumped on my 4.0/77L combo and blasted around fully powered. Nothing too epic in this video, mostly just a bunch of B&F (back and forth) sailing, but that's mostly what we get here this time of year.
Things are forecast to go ballistic this weekend. The forecasters are saying strong high pressure will pump up the winds into the full-blown nuclear range today through Monday with gusts into the 40s. At 8:00 the Kanaha sensor is already reporting 21 mph so it looks likely that this will pan out.
On to our Maui windsurfing video of the day. I spent the 4th of July on Tuesday sailing at Sprecks and took some video during a break. Winds were blowing in the 4.0 to 4.5 range during all this. Right after I finished taking the video I jumped on my 4.0/77L combo and blasted around fully powered. Nothing too epic in this video, mostly just a bunch of B&F (back and forth) sailing, but that's mostly what we get here this time of year.
posted by Jeff at
8:10 AM
1 Comments:
Makani,
I have a couple of stills of a local windsurfer that I took from a helicopter 6/28 over Sprecklesville. I was shooting some hi-def video of a huge estate for sale - and I took the still camera along too. I only have a couple of shots - but I was wondering if I could send these two to you. I'm sure that if you know this guy he would love to have this shot as it's a close-up from above and he's most definitely posing...Maybe you were out there that day - an obnoxious helicopter flying really low over Kanaha. :)
No wave jump shots, sorry... maybe next time.
Derek Sample
derek@blenderpost.com
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