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December 15, 2004
Eddie Aikau Goes, Outer Reef Exploration on the Ski
Today they had the Eddie Aikau, and I went out on a ski to do some outer reef exploration, and possible tow-in.
Went out on the ski from Haleiwa harbor around 11, I will admit on the drive there from my house I was all jittery.
As soon as we pulled out of the harbor I was relaxed though..., the red buoy had been dragged like 1/2 mile out to sea, in the channel it was a caldron of boiling currents running against each other. When we got outside into deep blue it was super calm still.
As we passed himis there were about 6 guys out there, went down to outside logs..watched a few huge waves roll through, it almost made my heart stop when I was the wave rear up and start to break, it was awsome, probaly 35-50 foot faces coming through, but most were just barely breaking. In retrospect, we should have just stayed there..
Went down to yards and phantoms, there were like 10 teams down there, but real spread out. Saw some monsters come through, but we were not feeling ready to go...
Went back to logs and I towed my partner into about 4 waves, but no sets. At first I was going to far out, but I finally got more aggresive and he caught his waves 1 after the other ...
After we finaly broke the ice I was feeling ready for a wave, but we had to get home to babysite, so no waves actually ridden for me......
After that I went home and my friend wanted to use my board (we split the cost of it actually) so I took it to him at yards, and hung out to watch.
Ken bradshaw and his partner Robbie were riding these 15 footers all the way across backyards, absolutely amazing rides, they have balls. Other guys were absolutely getting mental on the 15-18 foot phantoms lefts and rights.
The Eddie may have went, but these guys were doing the high perfromance thing on like 15-20....It was sick.
Posted by hawaiisurf at December 15, 2004 08:33 PM