Light northerly winds have prevailed on Maui's north shore the past few days, so the place to be to get your sailing fix has been Kihei, which always gets stronger winds than the north shore when the winds are northerly. I didn't make it to Kihei myself, but local keener Jazz sailed 5.3 on Saturday at Kihei and I just got a report from Speedy that he sailed 5.0 at Maui Sunset yesterday. Meanwhile the north shore was seeing average wind speeds of about 12 - 14.

Looks like high pressure is rebuilding to our north which should begin to usher in strong, more typical trade winds starting tomorrow.

Meanwhile in the far north Pacific near the Aelutians, several storms have been brewing, cooking up the first north swell for our 2006 wave season. The latest wave forecast is predicting some small surf on the north shore next Monday or Tuesday. Ooooh yeaaaaaaa!!!!!