Sounds like fun. I've never been in the water with that much talent before, but I suppose the lads would step it up a notch. Making the top ten would be an accomplishment worth the effort.
The ABA should stay in as a sponser and keep the brotherhood of surf lawyers stoked.
I'm assuming that the contest would take place at
Queens which is at or about the beachfront of the Royal Hawaiian. I briefly endured a stint as an undergrad at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Surfed all day and boogied all night.
Those were the days.......
XXXL - Your Thoughts?
Moderator: Jesus H Christ
The surf docket infra for the upcoming week will keep the surf bros in
Cali stoked for the rest of the week :)
Sunday the 30th gets better as this is the day when our next SW swell is due. This is from that series of storms we’ve been talking about since last week that was swirling around New Zealand. The first swath of energy should hit California on Sunday the 30th with wave heights running waist to chest high from 200-220 degrees with 14-16 second periods.
Monday the 31st sees the second burst of SW with size pushing more towards chest high on the sets. This is also angled from a nice wide 210+. And with its ideally long 16-second periods, it won’t be uncommon to see pluses pushing shoulder high or better at times at standouts with ideal bathymetry and shoaling.
Tuesday the 1st should be pretty much a repeat of Monday with SW swell providing wave heights in the chest high zone with pluses at standouts. Note also that we're expecting gradients to become NW'erly along the coast on Tuesday, which could increase onshores above 15 mph in the afternoon, and could very likely bring in some wind swell in the waist high + zone for west facing breaks.
Wednesday the 2nd is an interesting day. We have a powerful blast of southern hemi swell scheduled for the 3rd, and while there will be continued energy from the previous swell, forerunners with 18-20 second periods are expected to roll in by mid morning and throughout the day. This will make size quite variable at times with average sets running chest high, but then with rogue waves rolling in every now and again that push towards head high or better. The sets above chest high will likely be infrequent and only arrive like typical forerunners do--as single waves that occur sporadically between the noticeable sets. Note that some wind swell will likely persists in the background as well on Wednesday.
Thursday the 3rd is when our next SW swell is due, and this is significant in size and strength. It won’t be as big as that monster swell that hit about a month ago, but this will be quite sizeable nonetheless. As mentioned in our recent reports, the southern jetstream near Antarctica has been quite strong this summer, which has held swell-making storms at low latitudes. But, the winds have lightened enough to allow storms forming near New Zealand to drift northward, including a few significant systems headed straight for us; the first of which hits on the 3rd, and more to follow by the 6th. See animation of the deep southern hemi activity.
Cali stoked for the rest of the week :)
Sunday the 30th gets better as this is the day when our next SW swell is due. This is from that series of storms we’ve been talking about since last week that was swirling around New Zealand. The first swath of energy should hit California on Sunday the 30th with wave heights running waist to chest high from 200-220 degrees with 14-16 second periods.
Monday the 31st sees the second burst of SW with size pushing more towards chest high on the sets. This is also angled from a nice wide 210+. And with its ideally long 16-second periods, it won’t be uncommon to see pluses pushing shoulder high or better at times at standouts with ideal bathymetry and shoaling.
Tuesday the 1st should be pretty much a repeat of Monday with SW swell providing wave heights in the chest high zone with pluses at standouts. Note also that we're expecting gradients to become NW'erly along the coast on Tuesday, which could increase onshores above 15 mph in the afternoon, and could very likely bring in some wind swell in the waist high + zone for west facing breaks.
Wednesday the 2nd is an interesting day. We have a powerful blast of southern hemi swell scheduled for the 3rd, and while there will be continued energy from the previous swell, forerunners with 18-20 second periods are expected to roll in by mid morning and throughout the day. This will make size quite variable at times with average sets running chest high, but then with rogue waves rolling in every now and again that push towards head high or better. The sets above chest high will likely be infrequent and only arrive like typical forerunners do--as single waves that occur sporadically between the noticeable sets. Note that some wind swell will likely persists in the background as well on Wednesday.
Thursday the 3rd is when our next SW swell is due, and this is significant in size and strength. It won’t be as big as that monster swell that hit about a month ago, but this will be quite sizeable nonetheless. As mentioned in our recent reports, the southern jetstream near Antarctica has been quite strong this summer, which has held swell-making storms at low latitudes. But, the winds have lightened enough to allow storms forming near New Zealand to drift northward, including a few significant systems headed straight for us; the first of which hits on the 3rd, and more to follow by the 6th. See animation of the deep southern hemi activity.