Leaving work and on the drive home, there were signs of wind blowing.
I got home and loaded up the truck with big stuff.
This is what I saw when I got to the beach - WIND!!!! Never mind the really low tide - there were whitecaps!
Big stuff - AFS Enduro 1300/HA43, No.42 and the Flysurfer POW 5.0
As soon as I hit the water, the whitecaps started to back off. The wind did hold at levels that got me up on foil, but if I touched down, it was kind of an ordeal to get back up.
There were sets coming through periodically - I found three sets with shoulder high waves.
The POW drifted nicely with the swell and wind directions. It would have been nice to stash the PW, but I didn't want to risk dropping off foil while redeploying.
The wind kept lightening up throughout the time I was out. At the onset I was not making my jibes, but as the session went on, I was nailing them.
I even got a downloop jibe in - the pw wasn't wanting to change direction, so instead of getting pulled to a stop, I redirected the wing to loop under and I got it to reinflate. I'll have to work on this transition more deliberately.
Not sure if the weather pattern will hold - the forecasters are calling for a low pressure system to settle in. However - if the sun shines on Makakilo and the West Side... I'll be keeping an eye out for thermal generation.
W:58/FD:140/PW:72/S:18/PF:3
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