Country: Stirring at flat to 2’ on N-NE swell only at focal reefs. 

WEST: Down and dropping on S at 0-1 maybe a plus’ with glassy dawn and mushy late morn.   

TOWN: Down and dropping on S at mostly 1-2’ (waist) and a chance of plus after the minus low at 630am with glassy mornings; then light onshore winds when the land heats up.   Diamond Head: Down and dropping at 1-2.5’ maybe 3’ on South and lined up and smooth.  SANDYS: Eased slightly at 1-2 occ 3’ on sets on mix of with light winds and good.  

EAST: MAKAPU’U easing on Trade swell and up a pinch on NE  at 0-1-2’ and smooth.

— Surf News Network

DAVIS, Calif. – The University of Hawai’i baseball team finished a difficult road trip with a 6-3 loss to UC Davis on Monday afternoon at Dobbins Stadium. The game was a non-conference contest for both teams, as the Rainbows drop to 28-22 while the Aggies improve to 21-27. 

Kyle Dowdy earned his second career start but received the loss to fall to 2-3. He pitched two innings surrendering three runs on four hits. Evan Wolf (2-4) got the win for UC Davis, allowing two runs on six hits in six innings of work. 

HONOLULU – University of Hawai’i men’s volleyball head coach Charlie Wade announced the signing of Max Wechsung and Aniefre Etim-Thomas of Long Beach City College and Garrett Komisarek of Irvine Valley College for the 2013 season.

 
In addition local products Kolby Kanetake of Moanalua High School and Daniel Aina, Jr., of Kamehameha Schools-Hawai’i will also join the team.

— Hawaii Athletics

NAWILIWILI — With just one race remaining in the Nawiliwili Yacht Club Joel Ehrlich Memorial Rum Series, OZone has a solid five-point lead in the standings following the Thursday race.

But the race for second and third is up for grabs as Louie Abrams, at the stick for Papa‘au, pulled off some great moves on the fleet in the final lap to finish in second place on a 1:03:51 elapsed sail and corrected to 1:01:07 PHRF.

— The Garden Island

Eat the Street once again travels West, this time for a Saturday food fest at the Tony Group Autoplex in Waipio. The event features creative eats from dozens of popular food trucks and street food vendors.

— Nonstop Honolulu

Bobby Brown will marry in Hawaii on the weekend of June 15th.

The New Edition musician and his fiancee Alicia Etheridge - who have been engaged for two years and have a son Cassius, who will turn three later this month - will tie the knot in Honolulu on the same weekend he performs on the island with his band.

According to gossip website TMZ, Bobby will also fly out some of his family and friends to witness the ceremony he has dubbed his ”big day”.

— Yahoo News

Fans of our favorite canned pink luncheon meat will gather on Oahu’s south shore this weekend for the 10th annual Waikiki Spam Jam Festival.

And what does it mean to be a “Spam-jammer?” Well, according to event organizers, it means that you’re up for trying the salty pork foodstuff served up in a variety of culinary styles. At the festival, set for 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Sat., April 28, Spam-jammers will be sampling Spam Fusion Fajitas, Spam Katsu, Spam Won Ton, Spam Lau Lau, Spam Ravioli, Spam Tacos, and even Spam Poke. 

— Hawaii Magazine

More than 4,800 miles separate the two finalists of the 32, all-American craft brews of Beer Madness 2012: from Maui Brewing in Lahaina, Hawaii, and Exit 4 from Flying Fish Brewing in Cherry Hill, N.J.

But only one vote decided the winner.

Coconut Porter in previous rounds thumped the opposition with scores of 8-1, 8-1, 6-3. Yet it barely squeaked by last year’s champion, 5-4. It thus became the first canned beer to wear the Beer Madness crown.

— Washington Post

The last frontier on Earth is out-of-this-world, desolate, foreboding, and moon-like, James Cameron said after diving to the deepest part of the ocean.

And he loved it.

“My feeling was one of complete isolation from all of humanity,” Cameron said Monday, shortly after returning from the strange cold dark place 7 miles below the western Pacific Ocean that only two men have been to. “I felt like I literally, in the space of one day, had gone to another planet and come back. It’s been a very surreal day.”

— USA Today

As the crush of passengers boarded United Flight 618 to Hawaii here last month, they passed by a silver-haired flight attendant in bifocals who greeted them with an “Aloha, welcome aboard.”

Most of them appeared more focused on finding their seats than sizing up the flight crew, but this flight attendant, Ron Akana, stood out, not least because of the 11 sparkling rhinestones on the wings pinned to his lapel. The first one was to commemorate his 10-year anniversary as a flight attendant, and he was given another for every subsequent five years of flying.

Yes, Mr. Akana has worked as a flight attendant for 63 years, clocking some 20 million miles along the way, the equivalent of circling the globe about 800 times or flying roughly 40 times to the moon and back. Though no one tracks seniority across all airlines, he is widely believed to hold the title of longest-serving flight attendant in the United States.

— NY Times