Asa, Sweden

5 October 2009
Had a really nice session at "Rocky point" off Asa, Sweden, this Sunday.
Everyone was really stoked. The sets kept pumping in all day as the wind turned around the corner to a perfect 280 degrees - side to slightly side off and a 4.2 fully powered up. In the afternoon the wind picked up even more and a 3.7 seemed to be just too much. Average windspeed peaked at 21m/s. A day to remember :-)

Sweet memories...

Video shot just meters from the nice peeling wave at "Leme´s Left". No crowd, no stress, just pure joy!!!

Video and editing by Tania Nikolic

Cabo Verde January 2009

Cabo Verde´s first three weeks of January this year (2009) will probably go to history as the windiest ever three weeks on the island of Sal. 20 out of 22 days with 5.3 or smaller.

 Last ten days straight with 4.0-4.7.

Any waves?? Ohh yeaa!

A constant NV ground swell made the north spots work more or less throughout the whole period. Little

 Hookipa delivered 1.5m up to mast high waves pretty constantly. Curral Joul and Alibaba felt out of our league but was probably rocking hard on the bigger days. Never saw anyone sail there though.

We also scored some soft sailing at Canoa. Caleta Funda unfortunately did not work that good on the days we went to check it out but that place is probably one of the better spots for mortal people. Epic wave that breaks round a point and once you clear that point it has a safe exit. Cross offshore wind (like on all spots on the island) and a nice sandy beach to lanch from. Next time...

The second and third week of january proved that you do sometimes need small sails in Cabo Verde too. The Windguru forcast was all three stars and reality brought even more wind than was forcasted. Most common sail was probably 4.2 but 3.7 and 3.5 sails was used by some lighter sailors.

The action was all around the island. As all spots was going off at the same time it was sometimes difficult to decide where to go. One day we started at Little Hookipa in the morning, then Canoa and finally Punta leme in the evening!!

During this period the NV ground swell had good competition from a huge (4-4.5m) wind swell from the NE. A big NE swell turns the east point "Punta Leme" and "Leme´s Left" into a perfect point break with down-the-line waveriding super close to the crowds standing on the point watching the game only meters from the rocks. I think I sailed Leme´s Left for eirht days in a row with 4.7 and waves ranging from 1.5 to 4m. If you are lucky you can catch a wave at Ponta Leme and ride it past Leme´s Left and in to the bay until your arms are burning. My friend was counting 11 turns until I finally was washed up on the rocks in the bay at "Wave Power".

When it comes to wave riding I must say that Cape Verde is definately the best place I have ever sailed thanks to the always present offshore wind and the insane length of the waves that just goes on and on and on...

Maui october 2008

Some quick words on the October trip to Maui:

First time visiting the island- definately not the last. Stayed with norwegian friend Tormod at Lalo Goyas house in Haiku. Really nice place 15 minutes drive from Hookipa with cool guys Lalo and Pio as next door neighbours. All the people we met were really nice and friendly.


First week turned out fairly flat. Had a few small days at Hookipa with 4.7-5.3 and <2m>


More swell kept hitting the north shores throughout the second week and the wind was pretty much 4.7 all the time except for one or two days with no wind at all (but BIG waves).



We also had one day with south swell so we went down to La Perouse Bay with norwegian guy Paal Rype who new the wereabouts and that place really went off. Lots of surfers in the water so we decided to stay out of it. Only windsurfer out was world cup sailor Camille and he scored some insane riding.

I am already looking forward to next years trip to Maui. I feel I have improved my staboard tack sailing a lot, especially the riding but the most important was probably losing some of that fear and respect for those big pounders. After all, it´s only water :-)

Aloha!!