As is normal for this time of year as Maui heads into summer - the northerly swells disappear completely and the wind turns up a notch!
I know what everyone who is back at work is thinking right now, here we are sitting under a palm tree, its blowing 30knots, its 30degrees air temp, and 25degrees water temp, and I am winging because it’s flat... Yes I sound like a spoilt douche when you put it like that!
But sailing in chop is really not what we came here for and it gets very frustrating!
However the thought of returning to Melbourne, probably about 10degrees air temp, about the same in the water and maybe 10knots onshore? Mmmmm better make the most of the next 4 days!!
Conditions wise we have got really lucky, for the past month, we have had 4 days in total that we didn’t sail! We scored some great swell early on; we scored an awesome house and have no major injuries or incidents so far!
We have got a bit of good footage so far, and Al has started putting it into a quick video of the trip so keep a look out for that soon...
Speaking of Movies, before I left Melbourne I organized the movie premiere for ‘Wizards of OZ’ and ‘Quickly Go Mad’ two Australian windsurfing movies, the response has been amazing, tickets sold out so quickly, so we moved to the next size up cinema and that sold out again almost instantly again!!!
Should be a great night!
So while we have been here in Maui Jace, Levi and Johnny the people who brought us one of the best windsurfing films ever - ‘The Windsurf Movie’ have been working flat out putting the finishing touches and editing ‘The Windsurf Movie 2’ the follow up film which will be released soon…
I have been speaking with Jace and we just finalized a deal yesterday to have an official premiere in Melbourne!!!! So stay tuned for details on that!! Going by this last premiere get ready to buy tickets as soon as they go on sale!
Water shoot
Last week we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time with a small swell coming into Hookipa we scored a fun little session, Franck Berthuot swam out with his water housing to capture some awesome shots from the water.
http://photos.mauiwatershoot.com/c/mauiwatershoot/gallery-list
Cliffs and Pools
Yesterday morning before sailing some friends took us to some natural rock pools at the base of some big cliffs at Jaws. As you can see from the pics – Jaws wasn’t its normal gear crunching self!
For those who haven’t seen what Jaws looks like when it works check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnKu4UklaPQ&feature=channel
Blowing Glass
So James friends from Snowbird Seth and Erin recently moved here to Maui. They blow glass, and the other night they taught James and I to do it and we both made some glass pendants! Even better – neither of us burnt ourselves!
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