It didn’t take long for Koester and KP to join the action and in no time a pretty radical session was going down on a totally random beach on the West Side of Maui. Koester was going surprisingly big, with much more game on starboard tack than I was expecting. As for KP you can always rely on his trademark one hand, one leg back loop as his move for the camera as well as some pretty hefty stalled forward loops. As the afternoon progressed, the wind swung offshore and the boys were pretty much done and dusted. But then Danny Bruch rolled in after sailing the spot up the coast and hungry to go catch some more waves on his new Starboard Black Box. This was one of those sessions that didn’t look too much from the beach but once Danny was out there riding the wave he was linking up four or five turns on every wave and scoring an epic session.
The next day we were naturally hungry for more but a fading swell only had head high surf as leftovers but still enough for Timo, Danny, Cyril Moussilmani and Chris Muzza Murray to score a few waves and get a taster of this spot which for all I know may only work once in a blue moon. On the way back the North winds were howling right through Lahaina and another chance stop at a random ‘beach access’ sign close to the main street revealed another new location which looked like it had some possibilities, if the water was not too shallow over the reef. A few lumps of coral visible right in amongst the surf was reason enough to put out some warning signals but just downwind there was a small wave feathered by at least twenty knot winds. Timo had seen enough and was already rigging.
