02/26/2026
Personally, Lahaina is a place of love and heartbreak, life and death, success and failure. I lived a lot of my life in that beautiful Maui town. It’s a place that’s very dear to me, but bittersweet. While Front Street was a tourist destination for most, it was my daily commute. Any day there were waves, I was surfing anywhere from Launiupoko to Honolua. Often, I surfed the Harbor, jumping off the pier past the lighthouse. The spot could get packed with keiki shredders from Lahainaluna, but during school hours I would catch the spot with only a few other regulars. On bigger days I loved surfing the right that emptied into the channel. I frequented Breakwall less often, mostly because I didn’t enjoy dodging all the surf schools. But that outside left racing along the harbor wall was magical at times. Making these posters brings back a lot of memories.
