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BILLABONG PRO MUNDAKA: DAY FIVE
Another layday called; ASP Board Meeting to happen tomorrow + swell on the way for early next week
After an entire day of waiting around to see what low tide would deliver -- which was not a heckuva lot -- the Billabong Pro Mundaka was called off again today.
"We waited around for most of the day to see if the projected pulse would show on the lower tide, but it hasn't so we've called competition off for the day," Mike Parsons, Billabong Pro Contest Director, said. "Looking in our swell window, we'll see what materializes, but if we cannot finish the opening round at Mundaka tomorrow, we'll strongly consider moving to our backup location at Sopelana."
There you have it. The pros are waxing up their grovelers for the opportunity to work on their Huntington Hop halfway across the world from where it was invented. Meanwhile, the ASP finally announced that their big board meeting will be concluding tomorrow, followed by a press conference.
According to Dave Prodan from the ASP, the board meeting "will have ASP administration, event licensees and ASP World Tour surfers. Topics for discussion include:
- Significant changes to ASP World Tour
- New Rating System
- Prize Money (events/world champ)
- Exhibition Tour partnership"
As Prodan points out, "this should be one for the history books." Not sure about you, but after the Summer of Discontent, we're waiting with bated breath to see what the fellas come up with.
Stay tuned. And see below for the forecast.
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SURFLINE'S OFFICIAL BILLABONG PRO MUNDAKA FORECAST, effective 10/09/2009
-Jonathan Warren
BRIEF OVERVIEW: Saturday will see small/fading NW energy and very small surf. However, better WNW-NW swells on the horizon for late Sunday through Tuesday, with late Monday afternoon through early Tuesday showing the best of it. Conditions looking a little better at this time.
SATURDAY 10th
SWELL/SURF: NW swell slowly eases throughout the day with a tiny NW windswell mixing in. Morning high tide swamps out the small surf. Then look for knee-thigh occasional waist high lines to show during the lower tide in the afternoon.
WIND/CONDITIONS: Moderate West clocking NW winds.
SUNDAY 11th
SWELL/SURF: Small WNW-NW windswell shows with a new WNW groundswell building over the afternoon. Starting out basically flat on the high tide through the morning with knee-waist occasional chest high waves showing over the late afternoon as the tide drops and the swell fills in more. Inconsistent.
WIND/CONDITIONS: Calm to light offshores from the SW in the morning with a calm to light/variable onshores in the afternoon.
MONDAY 12th
SWELL/SURF: Broad range of WNW-NW groundswell. *The better angled NW energy will show strongest as we move through the late afternoon and into the night. Fortunately, our lower tide window will also be during that time. Look for mainly waist-head high surf with occasional set waves that are slightly overhead, strongest before nightfall. The early morning may offer something, but the tide may be a little too high by dawn and with the more westerly energy. High tide tops out by mid-day to slow things down.
WIND/CONDITIONS: Calm to light offshores from the South in the morning with a NE-ENE seabreeze developing over the afternoon to around 5-10kts.
TUESDAY 13th
SWELL/SURF: Old NW energy is fading as a new pulse of West-WNW swell tops out and holds. *This new swell has too much west in it for Mundaka and only a small amount of energy will wrap in. As a result, look for the biggest surf in the early morning (mainly due to the fading NW energy as well as the early morning low tide switching to incoming tide) with waist-chest occasional shoulder+ sets. High tide fills in through the morning and tops out by the early afternoon to slow things down.
WIND/CONDITIONS: Light-moderate easterly winds.
WEDNESDAY 14th
SWELL/SURF: Fading West-WNW swell through the day. Small, inconsistent surf under waist high (biggest early on the low tide).
WIND/CONDITIONS: Moderate ESE winds.
DISCUSSION + LONG-RANGE FORECAST
On Saturday, look for a slow fade of small NW swell through the day and a tiny NW windswell mixing in. Flat in the morning on the high tide with only knee-thigh occasional waist high lines showing over the lower tide in afternoon. Moderate west winds in the morning gradually veering NW through the day and decrease.
Now, we have recently been watching a couple lows in the North Atlantic that will bring better surf to the region:
LOW 1 - has swept off Newfoundland and currently spins up near Iceland
LOW 2 - has moved off Nova Scotia and currently sits just east of Newfoundland, but will eventually setup under Greenland as another area of low pressure merges with it.
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October 9, 2009
