The Kids

6.0 action at Bird on Saturday and I finally splashed out on a kids board. I promise I'm not going to be a pushy parent, but if they ask to sail, I want to have the kit there for them! Here is a short clip, super cute:

Today was windless so we headed home after lunch. Passing the Bay it looked windy. We pulled up at North Beach, rigged the 5.2 and 30 minutes of unexpected fun followed. Talk about timing! Check it out:

Maui Recap

It has been a week now since getting back from maui and the memories are already getting cloudy. Another great trip with Guillame. He is always full power 110%. We stayed at Alexs place over Haiku way (cheers Alex! You da man). At one point there were 5 of us in his little one bedroom apartment. We actually slept with a guy called Si for 3 nights before finally meeting him. Turns out we were sleeping with a famous windsurfing photographer, who was doing the Simmer shoot. It was interesting to hear his insights into the myriad of challenges of maui photoshoots. Looking forward to seeing some of his material in future Boards or windsurf mags.

We were having too much fun to get any media. This was my best pic, Ho'okipa rainbow:

It's amazing just how many windsurfing heros and world champions you bump into on maui. They're practically on every street corner. We borrowed a couple of SUPs off Damian and I almost snapped one. I genuinely don't know how, except that the last wave was barelling and I took off too late. "Dude! That was a knarly toob!". Anyway, I dropped the board off for repair, and whilst waiting Victor Fernandez turned up too. I'm thinking - "Quick, sound interesting!". "So, looks good pretty for Thursday". When in doubt talk conditions...

The sailing? The forecast looked a little bleak but we still sailed 5 days out of 8 and could have got a 6th kona session in if we had been on it. Enough sailing for Gui to get alien hands like this:

Thursday was the standout day. Ho'okipa was mayhem with a gazillion people out and 3 different photo shoots. We got out early, and I sailed up at green trees where there were plenty of waves going spare. Then we headed to Lower Kanaha for the late session which was THE BEST! Hardly anyone out (by Kanaha standards), the inside wave was super clean and fun and I finally started to push Alexs board.

Top trip. Need to start planning the next one! Maybe.... Punta San Carlos in May!

JumpFest

Wow! Josh Stone and Kauli were ripping yesterday. Really really entertaining to watch. I feel like a total punter in comparison. Here is a Jimmy Hepp pic of Kauli doing a Toad:

And some passion fruit margaritas:

Yum. Supposed to be real waves and wind today. Ho'okipa here we come!

Honomanu

No wind for a few days. So we took a trip along Hana Highway to Honomanu. Honomanu is a small but beautiful black sand bay. A river runs into the bay and a nice little left breaks across it. Here it is:

Yo Bro-Brah!

Paddling out the water was kinda murky and it felt a little sharky. "Hey, it feels a little sharky".

"Oh yeah, I didn't tell you? Honomanu means SharkBait!"

Gulp! No wonder no-one is here!

Saturday

Fun sesh at Days Inn. Hurt my buttock looping. Here is another use for an ezzy mast and mast extension. Pinata birthday bashing!

Easter Weekend

Great weekend with friends and family at Bird Island Basin  or 'Bird' as we like to call it. Better than forecast innate windsurfing funness. Absolutely everyone was shredding, smiling and eating chocolate eggs on Sunday. Took some video on Sunday too during the lull of the day. Here it is raw and unedited:

Laura! Was that a Toad attempt at the end!? Nice.