In that event, racers use small, narrow two-person canoes, called C2 boats. After years of C2 racing, she was invited to go to California and Hawaii to compete in an all-women’s outrigger team ...

Non-members will be required to sign up on the sign up sheet and download a waiver (link on sign-up sheet page). and bring a ...

The art of outrigger canoe surfing is an ancient Polynesian tradition, with British explorer Captain James Cook first encountering Tahitian natives riding waves in boats as early as 1777. In his ...

Each outrigger canoe is paddled by six women at a time. An escort boat follows each team during the race, with more paddlers on board. Team members switch off throughout the crossing in what are ...

Unlike the Olympic Games, which also feature whitewater slalom events, the Paralympic canoe program consists solely of flatwater sprints. Two types of boats are raced — kayaks and outrigger canoes.

The Kahakai Outrigger Canoe Club will its biggest event of the year this weekend — the Battle of the Breakwater. More than 1,200 paddlers from Santa Barbara to San Diego — who are part of the ...

Canoe is described in U.S. National Museum Bulletin # 127, p. 285: ... Smithsonian Institution. This photo has the caption: "Non-Native Man in Outrigger Canoe (Bought by Lt T. Dix Bolles) and Holding ...

Among the boats making their way across the Kaiwi Channel is Outrigger Canoe Clubʻs koa canoe, Leilani. The Leilani was built in 1933, along with the Kakina and Malie.

The Freshwater Challenge is a race on the Canadian Outrigger Racing Association schedule. Crews raced in a relay style ...

The Vernon Paddling Centre hosted their annual Freshwater Challenge Outrigger Canoe Race on Sunday, June 22. Canoes took over ...

Moloka’i, Hawai’i— It’s dawn on the Hawaiian island of Moloka’i, and the sun is rising on 48 outrigger canoes lined up on the sand of Hale O Lono harbor. Hundreds of women from around ...