Eddie Surf Contest, on Thursday - probably

[St. Phatty]

http://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2015/spec/1182/quiksilver-in-memory-of-eddie-aikau/live

Good contest if they hold it.

Contest guidelines say, 20 foot plus waves (that's Hawaiian scale, it means 40+ foot faces).

With near perfect wind conditions.

Doesn't happen very often.

But if it does it would be EPIC.


They have the waves ~
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=51101

21 feet at 19 seconds.

multiply by 19/17 = 23 1/2 feet Hawaiian scale (it works out that Hawaiian scale equivals to swell height @ 17 seconds.)

Wave heights ... wave jacks to 2 to 2 1/2 times buoy reading (front of wave).

It's a statistical thing, peak wave height (once an hour, "clean-up set") ... 2 1/2 x 23 1/2 = 58 foot faces (once an hour).


Short version - they have the waves, now it's a matter of how they break at Waimea (probably washing across the road like it did a few days ago) AND the weather.

 

[armedoldhippy]

watched some of the rides on the net. some killer fucking big waves!

 

[St. Phatty]

They called the contest sort-of-on a week ago.

Then decided the waves weren't perfect enough - after 28 guys had assembled at the beach.

The whole contest is built around the concept "Eddie would go".

I thought it was wierd to assemble all that talent, and then some of them go golfing, when Eddie would have gone surfing.

Anyway, as it turned out, they got the waves they wanted yesterday.

 

[Jericho Mile]

...massive.

 

[gekolite]

thank you , amazing rides and wipeouts