Is the waiting game over? Tomorrow’s forecast is still predicting excellent conditions with winds of up to 35 knots accompanied by waves of up to three meters by 5pm, which should generate brilliant cross-on jumping and riding conditions, giving the most radical sailors in the world the opportunity to truly showcase their skills as they launch into gravity defying stunts. Will Thomas Traversa be able to defend his Cold Hawaii crown, will Victor Fernandez finally get his first victory, will Philip Köster live up to his role as the favorite beat them all – or will it be something we never would have thought possible? Only time can tell …
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Klitmøller isn’t the only spot in Cold Hawaii. Actually there’s 29 registered windsurfing and surf spots on the west coast of Thisted Municipality – from the tip of Agger Tongue in the south to Hanstholm in the north.
This makes the area ideal for windsurfing and kitesurfing wave performance, first and foremost — but the area is quite excellent for surfing.
No-one seems to know where the name “Cold Hawaii” came from. Now and again, people claim to have invented the name, but the truth is that nobody has been able to document it.
So the safest thing to say is that Cold Hawaii comes from the people: us – the surfers.
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Day two of the KIA Cold Hawaii PWA World Cup 2013 started in the pitch black as the competitors and race crew congregated at the Cold Hawaii club house at 6am. The early start, however, didn’t pay off as the forecast that promised wind from first light failed to materialize due to the offshore direction. After seven and a half painstaking hours the wind finally followed forecast as it swung cross-off shore allowing the competition to begin shortly afterwards, in perfect, peeling down the line waves – half mast to logo high – and light to medium winds, which saw two waves to count over the duration of eighteen minute heats.
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