Monday 01/12/04

Onshore surf !!

Surf was 4 to 6 feet today, North, Northwest direction with
onshore West, Southwest winds.
There was no rideable surf along the North Coast but, even with this messy conditions
The International Bodyboarding Association (IBA) World Qualifying Tour (WQT) final event
had to run their final day with onshore surf at Pipeline.
The surf is supposed to be huge the rest of the week and their waiting period finishes on Wednesday.
Australian Jono Bruce was first in the event.

Second was country mate Josh Kirkman,
third was hawaiian Jeff Hubbard

and forth was aussie Dave Winchester.
Manuel Centeio from Portugal even losing on the round three
took the World Qualifying Tour championship title for 2003.
IBA
The bodyboarding is over and all the attention is turned to
The Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau big wave event.
There are couple of extra large swells on Hawaii's way,
one tomorrow reaching heights of 20 to 30 feet and
an even larger West, Northwest swell is expected to arrive late Wednesday.
This swell is expected to peak Thursday with surf heights above the high surf warning level of 25 feet.

Let's pray for better winds.
Stay tuned for updates and happenings!!!

Aloha
&
Mahalo for surfing my site ;)

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2003 TRIPLE CROWN OF SURFING RESULTS:

HAWAIIAN THOUGHTS:

"The climatological average based on 1968-2002
for the first double overhead swell on North Shores for the new season is September 17th (+/- 9 days).
For high surf levels (15 feet face), the average is September 29th (+/- 12 days).
The first Waimea day (25+ face) averages to November 11th (+/- 28 days)(Pat Caldwell)."

"No matter how we choose to go into the water,
whether it is surfing big waves, surfing small waves, sailing, canoeing or swimming.
It is important that we can enjoy ourselves and find peace(Clyde Aikau)."

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