Some Maliko shots

[StandUpPaddleSurf.net]

Awesome!  Thanks Rand.  Maybe one day I can join you guys.

[Easy Rider]

Great shots - Thanks.

I really want to do that paddle some day. 
Living in Northern Canada isn't helping!   

[PonoBill]

I'll be there December 3, counting the days.  Shipping my F18 to Mark for some repairs on Thursday, if it's not ready I'll just take Gumby, but I want to do a Maliko run so bad I can taste it.

[SchUP]

Re: Some Maliko shots
« Reply #14 on: November 16, 2009, 02:57:13 PM »   
It would be great if some time all of the people from the Zone who love this part of the sport could get together here for some runs.  I think that would be the best.

That's a great idea -- how about this weekend?

[Mauiguy]

It would be great if some time all of the people from the Zone who love this part of the sport could get together here for some runs.  I think that would be the best.

Count me in!  I can't wait to start doing this.  Here's my board in Mark's shaping room (pic taken yesterday)!

[J.Riggs]

This is an old pic of a Maliko run. We're outside Hookipa, notice no lifeguard tower; homemade paddles, and stand-up surfboards. It was hard to find people to paddle downwind with back then. My how times change.... and fast.

[Big Island Mike]

classic Jeremy.  Thanks for the photos Randy. Getting a few down here. This is the time of year. More oppertunities than Kona for downwinders for sure. Stoked!

[Kaweeka]

Slater digs for one:

It is only an opinion but this shot is better than any of the covers I've seen on the new SUP magazines    It is one of those pictures you look at and you are there.

Too bad you didn't have the Canon 5d to take the shot    It would definitley be poster material.

Thanks for sharing!

[PonoBill]

The whole set is like that. I was talking to one of the paint crew at last night's party, telling him about downwinders on the Columbia and Maliko. He wasn't getting it, so I pulled up those pictures. Totally blew him away. Excited and horrified at the same time--just like being there.

[Pureadrenalin]

It would be great if some time all of the people from the Zone who love this part of the sport could get together here for some runs.  I think that would be the best.

Now that would be a great idea. For those of us who never tried the Maliko run to get our feet wet and to experience Maliko with some real veteran SUP'ers. I think majority of us don't go on downwinders because one we don't know the run and the right people or crew.

[Admin]

Hi guys,

Please PM any time you want to go. There is a group going almost every windy day (one shore or the other), and company is always welcome.

We have a very good time on these runs.

[stoneaxe]

Next time out for sure. South side was fun last time but I dream of doing Maliko.

[noworrieshawaii]

Shoots..... I remember my first Maliko run.. tons of folks, Eddie O, the Randy's and Chan with their brand new Vortices, Kent and Gail, Paia Eddie (I think) Bill Foote, Larry and others... I was on my 12' Munoz... That was a grind... Didnt go all the way to the harbor, just to Kanaha... Didn't know if I liked it...   Then my next Maliko,-and first time into the harbor- on the old F-16 Byron sold me, smoking, big swells.... what a blast... Randy, Randy and Chan, Jeremy, Larry, Pono Bill, Jack and I forget who else.... They waited for me outside the harbor mouth which was great cause I would have missed it... then inside the harbor.. nuking... couldn't make it to the canoe hale, bailed and went into the boat ramp, got wrapped up in a fisherman's lines across the ramp....  What a day... I was hooked....   Good times...  Although I still think that offshore Kihei 40+ run came close for craziness....

[LaPerouseBay]

Then my next Maliko,-and first time into the harbor- on the old F-16 Byron sold me, smoking, big swells.... what a blast... Randy, Randy and Chan, Jeremy, Larry, Pono Bill, Jack and I forget who else.... They waited for me outside the harbor mouth which was great cause I would have missed it...

I remember that run.  It was the first time I paddled with you.  The wind was very, very good that day.  Chan waited for you at the entrance to the harbor.  Randy and I were hiding inside the wall, in the wind eddy.  Those were the toughest conditions I've ever seen in the harbor.  We barely made it to the beach, you and Chan got pushed over to the ramp.  Chan got a second wind and came over to the beach, then we drove over to get you.  I was very impressed with how well you did on your first run to the harbor.  You were only a few minutes behind. 

It would have been fun with all those paddlers you mentioned, but it was only the four of us.