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"HAWAII DAILY NEWS FILE CABINET INDEX"
"Old News"

Monday 01/07/02 - 10:00pm

Extra large surf in Hawaii !!!

Waves to about 25 feet pounded the Northwest facing shores
of all the hawaiian islands today.
The biggest swell this season so far had
light winds and sunny day,
making conditions perfect for the big waves riding events to go on.
Eddie did go at Waimea
and Tow in World Cup at Jaws went as well...
Mike Stewart Bodyboarding contest didn't go,
because Pipeline was a white water as far as we could possibly see out on the ocean.

Hawaiian Garret Mcnamara and brazilian Rodrigo Resende took the $70.000 check for the first Tow-in World Cup contest ever in 20 to 30 feet surf.
In total, 13 two-man teams contested the Jaws/Maui event.
 Mike Parsons scored the only perfect 10
of the entire event finishing second place with Brad Gerlach.
Complete Results:
1. Garrett McNamara/Rodrigo Resende (Hawaii/Brazil) - 143.6 points
2. Brad Gerlach/Mike Parsons (USA) - 132.4
3. Carlos Burle/Eraldo Gueiros (Brazil) - 130.5
4. Makua Rothman/Ryan Rawson (Hawaii) - 129.9
5. Cheyne Horan/Robbie Seeger (Australia) - 124.4
6. Sierra Emory/Luke Hargraves (Hawaii) - 119.6
7. Jeff Clarke/Chuck Patterson (USA) - 115.7
8. Terry Chun/Titus Kinimaka (Hawaii) - 108
9. Ken Bradshaw/Dan Moore (Hawaii) - 107.1
10. Buzzy Kerbox/Michel Larronde (Hawaii) - 102
11. Troy Alotis/Robert Gompers (Hawaii) - 97.8
12. Victor Lopez/Archie Kalepa (Hawaii) - 85.4
13. Ken Collins/Josh Loya (USA) - 84.1

Meanwhile in Oahu,
Waimea was beautiful with 20 feet waves, light Southeast winds and sunny skies.
Perfect day for the contest in memorial of Eddie Aikau.
Kelly Slater proved to be the best surfer ever and
took the $55.000 check for the best 4 waves ridden score in the event with319 points.

Slater dedicated this victory to his friends which past away surfing big waves:
Jay Mouriaty, Todd Chester, Mark Foo, Don Solomon

Top 6 finalists:
3rd)Paul Patterson/Aust, 2nd)Tony Ray/Aust and 1st)Kelly Slater/USA

4th)Noah Johnson/HI, 5th)Ross Clark Jones/Aust, 6th)Jonny Boy Gomes and Brock Little/HI

Jonny Boy had the best wave of the event with 97 points out of 100

George Downing event organizer
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Noah Johnson 1999 Eddie's winner

Outside reefs were going off everywhere around the islands.

Around 10:55am there was a huge set closing the bay

Just compare this wave with the house and the cliff on the back...

Just some real good moments
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Eddie's final results:
1)Kelly Slater/USA 319
2)Tony Ray/Aust 317
3)Paul Patterson/Aust 316
4)Noah Johnson/HI 314
5)Ross Clark Jones/Aust 263
6)Jonny Boy Gomes/HI 262
7)Brock Little/HI 262
8)Clyde Aikau/HI 261
9)Braden Dias/HI 253
10)Jamie Sterling/HI 240
11)Myles Padaca/HI 232
12)Keoni watson/Hi 231
13)Darryl Virostko/USA 228
14)Ross Willians/HI219
15)Russ Keaulana/HI 216
16)Tony Muniz/HI 204
17)Derek Ho/Hi 178
18)Keone Downing/HI 176
19)Peter Mel/USA 173
20)Elijah Young/HI 171
21)Chris Malloy/USA 166
22)Pancho Sullivan/HI 154
23)brian Keaulana/HI 126
24)Dave Yester/USA 124

Good chances for the first day of the Mike Stewart event to go on tomorrow with surf supposed to be in the 8 to 12 feet range.
Check it out!!!

Aloha
&
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