August Wrap-Up

The last few days of August we've seen some pretty consistent and strong winds here on Maui bringing a nice finish to a pretty good month of sailing. My tally for the last three days included 5.0 at Kanaha on Tuesday, 4.5 at Kanaha on Wednesday and 4.5 at Sugar Cove today. Each of those days was spectacularly sunny and warm and the wind was pretty consistent. Still no true waves, but there is some wind swell up at Camp One, Sprecks and Sugar Cove.

Looking back on the month of August as a whole, it seems like this was a better August for wind than we've had the last few years, with only last week bringing light, non-sailable winds. The last few years in August we saw more tropical storms or depressions cutting off our trade winds. This year, Hector was the only fly in the ointment.

Looks like September will start off with wind tomorrow, perhaps a little lighter tomorrow and then maybe even dropping another notch on the weekend. That's what the weather guys are saying anyway. Personally I think it will probably still be plenty windy this weekend and into next week.