Historic swell slams California before Christmas, 2024; Huntington Beach outrigger canoe crew surfs massive waves at oil platform Esther.

In Hawai’i, the art of carving outrigger canoes has traditionally been a male pursuit. Many women have captained and paddled the canoes, but few have learned to build them—an undertaking that ...

WAILUA — New Yorkers were treated to outrigger canoe racing recently when crews from Hanalei, Kaiola, and Wailua Kayak and Canoes descended on the Big Apple for three days of rigging ...

For the ancient Polynesians, finding Easter Island, a small 64-square-mile speck in ... "At the backbone of the maritime tradition lies the outrigger canoe," explains Jo Anne Van Tilburg "the ...

Whilst the kayaks are the main Para canoe boats and are propelled by a double-blade paddle, the latter are outrigger canoes propelled by a single-blade paddle. Only kayaks were contested at Rio 2016.

Canoe surfing, particularly aboard the outrigger style of boats ... still practiced in most Pacific Ocean islands, and among a small number of devotees elsewhere in the world.

Wendall DeVera, Vietnam veteran, longtime paddler and president of Pu‘ali Koa Kahiko, listens to opening speeches and a blessing of a Hawaiian outrigger canoe on Friday morning in South Maui.

Two types of boats are raced — kayaks and outrigger canoes. Outrigger canoes are known as “va’a” which is the Samoan and Hawaiian word for boat or canoe. A single-blade paddle is used in outrigger ...