Monday, July 20, 2009

2 x Kanaha 2 x Hookipa and surf at thousand peaks

Well in the past five days I got in 2 sessions at kanaha beach park. I sailed there because hookipa was super flat and at Kanaha I was able to sail upwind to the break at uppers. Day 1 at Kanaha was pretty tame 5.3 with a 75 l board. Back home that would be an awsome day, its funny how our opinion of conditions changes. However the second day at Kanaha was crazy I was powered to overpowered on 4.2.





I sailed both days at Hookipa on 4.7 and there was a little wave to play with.




The first day I was on an 81 L goya custom wave board. That board rocks and I would love to have one for the windy days back home. On the second day I was on a 72 L rrd wave board and was way overpowered by 2:30 and should have rigged 4.2.





The one day I didn't sail the wind was in the mid teens and I headed over to a break in Lahaina called thousand peaks. The wave was about shoulder high and perfect for longboarding. After about 3 hrs of surfing I checked out Blackrock and joined the rest of the tourists.


It's mabey a 25 ft jump from the rock where the kids are standing.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Oahu and tourist stuff

Well its been 14 days now that I've been in Maui. I have sailed 7 days at hookipa, 1 and sprecks, and 1 at kanaha. I missed a few days when my friend came and we spent some time being toursists. We were able to snorkel the west and south sides of Maui, hike twin falls, take a zipline tour on Haleakala, and spend a day in Oahu visiting Pearl harbor and diamond head.




It really makes you think when you learn that there are over 900 sailors still entombed in the Arizona.










At hookipa its been incredable to see the level of sailing. These guys here are amazing. Seeing them sail has inspired me to go for bigger air, try forward loops, and it has really improved my wave riding. Apparently its rare for hookipa to see much of a wave in the summer, but we have been seeing alot of waist to chest high surf.





> You see a few more people out in the waves then you do on the jersey shore :)




Thursday, July 2, 2009

Maui

Well school ended june 16th and i've been traveling ever since. However, I reached my highlight destination of the summer Maui!!!!! I had never been to maui and decided back in march that I was going to spend the month of July on the north shore.
Here is a brief breakdown of the trip so far.

June 26th flew from Philly to San Diego

hung out in san diego with my cousine for a few days did some hiking and surfing at mission beach.


June 29th flew from San Diego to Maui

got into Maui around 2:30 pm and met Giampaolo who's studio I am renting and drove 1 mile down the road to hookipa.


This was probably one of the most incredible views I have seen. The exciting part is I will probably stop by that bluff atleast once a day for the next 30 days.


Anway there wasn't any sailable wind Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday so I surfed each day and toured the island. (the biggest sail I have here is 5.3 so i need close to 20 to plane.)


Finally today (Thursday) the wind came up and I was able to get around 3 hours of sailing at sprecks. I was mainly bump and jump but there were a few swells to do some turns on.


It looks like the trades are going to kick in starting tomorrow so hopefully there will be alot of sailing in the near future.