Suited up in life jackets and with paddles in hand, clients served by the Costa Mesa nonprofit Project Independence hit the waters of Upper Newport Bay Thursday in outrigger canoes in search of a high ...

JUAN CARLO/THE STAR Members of the Hokuloa Outrigger Canoe Club, a competitive group, paddle around Ventura Harbor. (Photo: Juan Carlo) JUAN CARLO/THE STARNadean Hudson and her father Norm Hudson ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and in 1990 that necessity was a wedding gift for Dave Chun’s friends and fellow members of the Kailua Canoe Club in Hawaii, where outrigger paddling is as ...

Nearly a decade ago, Mingei International Museum director Rob Sidner was vacationing in Hawaii when he realized he was repeatedly encountering outrigger canoe paddles. “A friend and I kept seeing them ...

The men in the sleek outrigger canoes dig their paddles into the choppy blue waters, fighting the chilly wind to propel the boats forward, using every muscle in their arms to move perfectly in sync ...

A short stint on the sea reveals the rigors canoe teams endure in Hawaii My dusty old Girl Scout paddling badge was about to pay off. The nine canoe teams that had raced partway around Maui the day ...

r "OC" stands for "outrigger canoe." The designation "six" means that it seats six paddlers. The fiberglass canoe is about 40 feet long, with two arms, called iakos, that reach out to an outrigger, ...

We are taking things one paddle stroke at a time,” said Christine Villanueva, paddle sports advocate and founding member of the Philippine Outrigger Canoe Club. Villanueva recently set up House of ...

Santa Barbara Outrigger Canoe Club (SBOCC) invites new paddlers in the community to join for the 2022 season. Outrigger canoeing is an ancient paddling sport with origins in Hawaii and Polynesia.