Pono House

What an odd day. I spent most of it sewing new sleeves for all the rack pads on the funmobile. the surf looked big, and I bet it was going off in a reasonable size on the west side (ho’okipa was closed out and very windy), but I was home sewing. And I thought the [...]

Why would you go to a restaurant where Mai Tais are fifteen bucks.
Because it’s worth it.
Mama’s is a gorgeous place. Actually it’s way past gorgeous. There’s an unobstructed view across the empty beach (it’s not private, but you have to come through the Mama’s entrance to get to it) to crashing waves. There’s the glorious [...]

Reposted to get this page into the RSS feed. I’m obviously doing this backwards, I should do pages as posts first and then paste them into pages. We’ll see if I remember that next time.
I promised long ago that I’d do a tour of the Ding King’s, one of the most perfect surfer joints I’ve [...]

Several people asked me why Hawaiians measure waves in a manner that makes them SMALLER than elsewhere. I didn’t have a clue, so I did some research. People often say that Hawaiian measure is from the back of the wave, but that’s not really true. For one thing you can’t see the back of the [...]

I dropped by Jimmy Lewis’ workshop a few days ago. I really like his boards, and through corresponding with him I realized his shop is just a short distance from Pono House. My post office address is in Haiku, though this area is really Peahi, Jimmy’s place is actually in Haiku.

A hydrofoil board in the [...]