What if "The Bay" calls again?
This big wave season, in Hawaii, has certainly been one for the ages. It all started way back in November when one large Pacific swell after another menaced the islands’ northern facing shores. Things got wild in December, so wooly, in fact, that the 11th Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational was greenlit at the end of the month, won of course by Liam McNamara’s boy Landon.
The angry ocean took a merciful break during the World Surf League Lexus Pipe Pro’s early January window but roared back to life directly after Tyler Wright made history and has not let up yet even though March is tomorrow. Or today, In Australia.
The latest event being “set up by a beautiful low” according to Surfline’s lead forecaster Kevin Wallis and is slated to be as big as the December Eddie swell leaving surf fans curious?
Could the big wave invitational run twice in one year?
The question is certainly intriguing. The Eddie, unlike most surf contests, does not run every year, only when wave heights reach a consistent 25+ feet. As noted above, it has only gone 11 times since its inaugural 1985 holding. Its unofficial motto, as all surf fans know, “The Bay calls the day.”
So, what if “The Bay” calls twice in one year making up for all those lonely seasons when it was otherwise occupied?
Would you be excited for a redux or has your big wave watching plate already been filled?
Something to think about.
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Who needs weather reports anyway?
How layoffs at NOAA reveal a flaw in the government’s hiring system, briefly explained. scientists kinda needed. BG’ers shine and rise~
Hey it’s now 2025 with a huge swell coming in might as well take advantage since most years it doesn’t run! Let the bay call the day!!
Jeezus derek your really scraping the barrell lately, isnt there an old sir kell story or the (old chesnut) shark rips to threads a boatload of magas fleeing to mexico…
The history of Contest permits in Hawaii is long and crooked, like my Johnson, but I digress. The answer is no, for the same reason they can’t change the pipemasters and the pipe pro and the backdoor Shootout only so many permits are allotted per month/per season and certain events have occupied those periods for decades. Basically you can change the name or sell the permitted time slot but no New slots are added citing tourists interruptions and environmental impact. In other words you need lots of “Kala” to “Lomi Lomi” the long crooked Johnson of Hawaii State Government. Good luck and Happy Endings!….
Don’t think the surfing industry could afford it
Freddie Would Go!
More Eddie, please.
Give Zelensky a wildcard. He’s due for some major bombs.
Wish Zuckerburg would sponsor some surf competitions. At the very least, it would feed his man-crush for Kai Lenny.
As a ‘surf journalist’, isn’t it you who can place the call to Eddie organizers to pose such a question? That seems like the only privilege the role offers, other that getting wooed by the next WSL CEO, of course.
Now THAT is funny, and should be ‘comment of the day’.
Apparently Chas (and anyone who even slightly knows him, including most BG commenters) have had their numbers blocked by the whole surf adjacent industry…
The Pipe footage lately is alltime!!
https://youtu.be/MQ6JtZOBgfE?si=ng-zw419USIAdVRV
Whilst Pipeline is the beautiful, majestic, elusive and hard to get idyllic babe, Backdoor is her hot and hungry, nasty younger sister that will give you the best root of your life or smack the living crap out of you for fun.
Backdoor has been all time this season!!!
So true
John had one in the comp lookin like Reef way back in the day. Jamie had some sick ones too last week.
what about entertaining us all with a comp at Peahi/Jaws?
I mean one Waimea is enough…lets watch Monster peaks/ barrels…?????
I like that idea.
very Musk/DOGE
haha , I thought the room was a little musky from all the DOGEY shit!
Eddie would go to Jaws.
In similar North Shore news.
There’s been mention that old baldy has named his son Tao.
Well now his full name has been released.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Yep, the kid has started to develop his personality in one of the more traditional North Shore ways.
And also a nod to his mother’s heritage…
Tao = the way (Chinese)
Lee = plum tree (Chinese)
Slater = roofer (English)
The way to the plum tree roof
(pronounced Towelie Slater)
Great backhander swell kicked in after TW won pipe …brilliant
Totally and absolutely as our South African friends like to say. Time is tight let’s go. Survival of the fittest.
Twice? Going to need to bit of foreplay to get back up for another sesh.
Eddie would go again
Yeah, but Eddie was a real man. Ol’ Gil on the other hand…
Guerremo~ son of Gunder. Viking King.
Timoteo~ american saint that found lost surfboards.
Tao! son of a black jazz musician.
Eddie picked up a guitar. Netherlands.
Elton is till gay~
Gill: that thing which upon fishes breath…
Christian Slater
Michael Schumacher!
https://youtu.be/VaN5aiO3Qc…
Is it possible to just… surf? Are people on the North Shore allowed to surf without someone filming or in a jersey?Or must it all be recorded,… like if a tree falls in the wood and no one is…. ah you get it
it’s all just a ruse for BG to do a live chat
NO
NO
YES
It can run, but it can’t hide.
It ran in December soo that was 2024. I heard we’re in 2025 now…technically the window does go until March 13th but yeah, No!
Thanks Big Ben….bt if it’s 10pm in Pago Pago, what time is it in Lichtenstein…….
with daylight savings…..in a leap year?
Suck my clock!
The Duke presented by The Memory of Kelly Slater and Rob Machado’s High-Five .