Where did you surf today ?

[steve shearer]

Not me, satellite data shows the actual position and stre\ngth of the fetch.

[Yuke Hunt]

Sir Tardalot of the Fetch.

[steve shearer]

Compare it to the low/cold front second week of Jan this year which actually generated the biggest S swell of the year so far and it's night and day.

[buddy]

I hope he's wrong too, but he sounds so convincing .

Meanwhile, I can't complain - there's been fun waves with minimal crowds just about everyday for a long time now.

[offshore1]

Not me, satellite data shows the actual position and stre\ngth of the fetch.

Classic MSM FAKE NEWS!

[steve shearer]

Anyhow, in other surf forecasting news the North Pacific Jetstream is finally starting to shift southwards to it's more common winter positions steering much stronger severe gale to storm-force low pressure system fetches towards the Hawaiian islands.

[buddy]

Stumbled across myself on Instagram.
From this morning on an old Tony Dempsey single fin borrowed off a mate.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqYLLVHFTL4 ... unib6zh5v6

[steve shearer]

silky skills Buddy

[buddy]

Thanks, Steve.

[Hatchnam]

Yep. Looks in tune, relaxed and effortless.

[Drailed]

You really wanna be burying that rail deeper and harder.

[Trev]

Stumbled across myself on Instagram.
From this morning on an old Tony Dempsey single fin borrowed off a mate.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqYLLVHFTL4 ... unib6zh5v6

Nice.

PS. Ignore the ten pound pom.

[Drailed]

Haha just jokes. Styling brother.

[buddy]

I reckon if I was 95kg the whole board would've been under

[Wyre]

Nice style bud!

I'm going with Carroll on this system. Only because it is a kid-free weekend for the Wyre, and I have to get my froth on.

[The Mighty Sunbird]

Can’t wait I will be styling the 7 foot straight handers at my local

[steve shearer]

The satellite passes of the South Island fetch look better this morning, a bit more has protruded into the Tasman, though the vast bulk of the fetch is still lurking behind the South Island.
Still, with a westerly flow from the Tasman low on hand, it'll be fun.

Not so much up here with a more WNW-NW flow.

Those S Island swells arrive here with a very distinctive swell angle .....normally long-lined, long lulls. They look and feel more like Indo swells. Very, very nice here on local points as long as un-hyped. Not so much for beachbreaks. Too long, too straight. With a couple of rare exceptions that will still struggle under devil winds.


The Tasman low itself looks weirder, and worse. If that thing did move out into the Tasman and stand and deliver it would be on like Donkey Kong.

A very, very weird pattern.

[offshore1]

It's tard season after all.