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Results of Saturday’s (Aug 16) long distance canoe racing event sponsored by Keoua Canoe Club at Honaunau. The 28th Annual Calvin Kelekolio Long Distance Race hosted clubs from around the island, with a 2 mile course for Juniors, an 8 mile course for Women and Mixed crews and a 10 mile course for the Men’s […]

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MEDIA RELEASE With registration deadlines looming, Kai Opua Canoe Club is preparing to welcome more than 2,500 outrigger canoe paddlers from around the world to Kona. Crews from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Tahiti, United Kingdom and an estimated 75 crews from the US are headed to Kona to compete at the […]

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MEDIA RELEASE As canoes line up across Kailua Bay for the start of the 43rd Annual Queen Liliuokalani Long Distance Outrigger Canoe Races Saturday, Aug. 30, it will be the tale of the Hawaiian koa canoe that is whispered across the starting line. Last year, after a dry spell longer than most paddlers can remember, […]

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The 12 mile long course started at Keokea Park in North Kohala and finished at Kapaa Beach Park, 3.5 miles south of Upolu Point. The 7 mile short course started at Kapaa Beach Park, ran north to Upolu Point and turned to finish back at Kapaa. Challenging conditions brought many off-island paddlers to North Kohala […]

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Keauhou Canoe Club’s 3rd Annual Kauikeaouli Challenge Race for OC6 canoes for Recreational paddlers took place Saturday (March 15) at Keauhou Bay. Held as one of the events of the Lani Kauikeaouli Festival weekend and sponsored by Kamehameha Schools this event has grown each year, and gives enthusiastic recreational paddlers a chance to experience racing.

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Results of the HIPA (Hawaii Island Paddlesports Association) OC1/OC2/Standup Paddleboard race that took place Saturday (March 15) at Keauhou Bay. Named in honor of Keauhou Canoe Club paddler, the late Eda Hinchcliff, the Kuuipo race has been running for 16 consecutive years. Sponsored by Kamehameha Schools, this year’s race is one of the Kauikeaouli Festival […]

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Results of Saturday (March 1) Hawaii Island Paddlesports event held at Honaunau, hosted by Keoua Canoe Club.

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Results of BIIF West Hawaii Regatta held at Kailua Pier Saturday, December 7, 2013.

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii Island Paddlesports Association hosts the 15th Annual Abbott Galaher SeaMan Race on Nov. 16. Conceived 15 years ago by the late Abbott Galaher, this race has always been a fund and food raiser for the Hawaii Island Food Basket and is a pre-season warm-up for the HIPA race series which begin in […]

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MEDIA RELEASE More than 2,000 paddlers in the Men’s and Women’s Divisions competed in Saturday’s Queen Liliuokalani Long Distance Outrigger Canoe Races, the world’s largest outrigger canoe race, hosted by Kai Opua Canoe Club in Kona. The first women’s crew to cross the 18-mile race from Kailua Bay to Honaunau was Oahu’s Waikiki Beachboys Canoe […]

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WHAT: Queen Liliuokalani Long Distance Outrigger Canoe Races WHERE: Kailua Kona Pier WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 31 – Monday, Sept. 2 RACE HEADQUARTERS: King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Queen Liliuokalani women’s long distance outrigger canoe race. The Queen’s Race salutes these pioneering women and the support crews who […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Summer of 1974: President Nixon resigns, Hawaii elects George Ariyoshi as the nation’s first Japanese-American governor, John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York City, Eric Clapton’s “I Shot the Sheriff” is the number one hit song and for the first time ever – wahine (women) compete in a long distance outrigger […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Wounded Warrior Canoe Regatta sets sail Sunday, August 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Fort DeRussy Beach as part of the 12th Annual Duke’s OceanFest. The regatta has become a successful fundraising event after its initial start in 2009 as a tribute to recovering troops. Organized by Malama Na Koa […]

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Tahitian team Shell Vaa tops leaderboard after three days of competition

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