It's Windy

Maui winds have pumped up a couple of notches the last two days - just as forecasters predicted. Amazing! Yesterday I sailed 4.2 at Kanaha - pretty wound up quite often but there were some holes. We had a pseudo-north swell yesterday. At least I think it's trying to be a north swell. Maybe the waves are having tryouts or something. They were pretty unorganized and unreadable. Using the tryouts metaphor, if our waves were trying out for the varsity football team, yesterday's wannabe's were the kids in tryouts who were tripping up all over themselves, running the wrong way, shoulder pads on backwards, fumbling the ball ... you get the idea. Not exactly first string, starting line-up. What they were good for was some steep ramps for launching into orbit - if you happened to time it right.

Today was Sugar Cove day. Word was that we were going to get a small bump in the north swell. Didn't really materialize much. Sprecks had some mushy, unorganized stuff, but it had quite a bit of wind swell influence in it. Upwind at Spartan reef there were some irregular sets rolling in occasionally.

As for the wind today, it was a bit funky. At 11:00 at Sugar Cove, it looked like I'd want a 5.3. By 11:30 it looked 5.0. Another 10 minutes and it looked 4.7, so that was what I rigged. Wind was pretty easterly and very holey - until about 1:00 or so when it majorly kicked in - with averages in the low 30s. Oddly enough, Kanaha kicked in earlier than Sprecks and Sugar Cove today. Usually the upwind launches get a bit more wind than Kanaha, but some refugees from Kanaha reported than before noon, guys were debating rigging 3.7s and 4.0s. The forecast guys are calling for it to continue to be strongly windy tomorrow. And, since they seem to have gotten this forecast right, maybe I'll believe them. After that, things are supposed to settle down to normal levels.