Randy on the Zone has just posted the new time to beat on the famous Maliko DW run on Maui.. Here's what he had to say...
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This recent stretch of wind has brought some incredible conditions to the world famous Maliko run. The best of the best have been out there and many of the old Gulch to harbor mouth records have fallen. We may never see a race that happens in these kind of epic conditions, so I'd like to record these feats that press the limits of what is possible here.
Dave Kalama turned in a mind bending 53:20 on his 17' Naish. That's an average of just over 10 MPH for the whole 8.9 miles.. (That's an average of 16 KPH.. Wow!)
Maliko gets fast in the summer. I had forgotten how fast. Very strong winds, blowing for days starts it off. The big difference is the lack of ground swell. In the wave months the ground swell crosses the course, then backwashes off the shore and crosses it again. In the summer you get uninterupted downhill planes. Big, wide, sloping, surfaces that surge up, drop away and link into one another for 9 miles. It is really something to see when it gets wound up like its been.
When Dave finished his record smashing run the other day, he wandered over to our truck shaking his head. He was lit up. "That was a perfect 10" then he repeated, "a perfect 10".
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You guys going over for the Naish DW race on July 18 are going to have so much fun.. You lucky buggers.
The Naish guys (Aussies) are over there now so lets hope they bring back heaps of news and pictures.
Check out this pic of Dave Kalama paddling with a broom..
DJ
. Flights were too expensive this year on relatively short notice 
