Maui 2011, day 3

Mornings on Maui is the best time of the day. Calm, fresh and no hot sun burning your skin. After breakfast and the mandatory morning school session, I went to town to get a new Laptop cable and Karin and the kids went down to the beach by the house. Found a universal cable at Walmart for $62 = 420 SEK - for a cable!!

Lunch in Paia (they do know how to make burgers in this country) and then off to Hookipa. Kids in the pool. A nice litte NE swell and slightly off shore 5.0 winds made the place look pretty nice. Unfortunately it was really over crowded and very choppy and difficult to find the right waves. In the end though, it was nice to have that first Hookipa session, but I must say Kanaha yesterday was more fun and a lot cleaner with glassier faces.

Maui 2011, day 2

Woke up at stupid oclock this morning. The kids started doing thieir school work at 4 am!!! We can not find the battery charge cable for the laptop so now I am blogging on my Nokia. Have to keep it short until we have found a new cable...Went to Hookipa beach park in the morning and the kids went swimming in the natural pool. Went back to the house for lunch. In the afternoon the wind picked up and I got a nice three hour 5,3 session at Kanaha in beautiful boom to headhigh looong lines. The kids had a nice three hour boogie board session in the shorebreak and Karin had a three hour session in the shade of the high pine trees. Also met Tormod and Sigurd. When we were about to leave Kanaha the car refused to start. Batter totally dead after five minutes playing the radio with the engine turned off. Luckily we got help to jump start the car. Have to check in at Kimo's tomorrow morning...

Maui 2011, day 1

Woke up surprisingly late and actually had to wake up the kids at 8:30. Breakfast on the balcony with a reaally nice view over the calm see with some small waves breaking on the outside reef. Ramus and Lukas were of course very keen on going for a swim so right after breakfast we all went down the small path to the white sandy beach and turqoise water. Really hot now, probably over 30C. Me and Lukas went in first while Rasmus - as always - was a bit more cautious respecting the shore break. After the swim we went back to the house for a little jet-lag mid-day nap. No wind for sailing today so after the nap we went into town and did some shopping; hallowen costumes at K-mart and then food shopping at Safeway. After that back to the house for a nice pasta bolognese in the shade of the lanai. In the late afternoon we took the car to Kanaha to see if we could find Tormod and to go for another swim while the sun set behind the cloudy mountains. Some windsurfers swimming back in told tales that there had been some sailng after all, no matter the light wind. There was still a decent swell creating head high to logo waves at uppers. Tomorrow...

Maui 2011, day 0

Arrived in Maui last night after a long and a bit stressful journey. Everything turned out fine but there is always some stress between flights and also the stress over your equipment - will everything turn up or will something be missing? Well, at last we touched down at Kahului internationa airport on Maui´s north shore, found the car after takling to Kimo over the phone, and there it was in the pitch dark parking with the keys in the secret place. No gas in the tank so we had to find a place to fill up our golden Subaru Forester. We had been promised a mini-van but unfortunately there weren´t any available at the moment. "-come in monday and we´ll see what we can do-". After a quick stop at a supermarket tah turned out to ave almost anything, except a lot of food, we arrived at the house at Camp One. The darkness is so much more intense than what we are used to at home. Here you can see a million stars, but on the other hand that´s about the only thing you can see. Our japanese landlord Yasu (a former professional windsurfer) met at the gate and showed us the apartment that was bigger than we had first imagined and really cosy too. After a couple of bowls of Cherrios and milk and half an hour of sugar high kids playing in their new bedroom, we all finally fell asleep.

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