I’ve always been a water person. During my childhood in San Diego, I spent entire summers at the beach or in swimming pools. As I got older, I progressed into sailing, surfing, kayaking and most ...

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 ...

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, ...

I was 19 years old, fresh off the airplane and so haole I didn’t even know I was haole standing in line for the shuttle to the employee parking lot of the Maui Marriott in Kaanapali, Maui. Tipo, a ...

A South Kohala canoe club blessed its newest wa‘a last weekend at ‘Ohai‘ula at Spencer Beach Park. Gifted by the foundation in support of the club’s mission to strengthen the community through ...

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.

KRYSTLE MARCELLUS / KMARCELLUS@STARADVERTISER.COM Outrigger Canoe Club's (from right) Bill Pratt, Scott Gamble, Victor Agostini Bovino, Simeon Kepaloma, Makena Fernandez and Billy Balding came in ...

Salt on your skin, wind in your hair and the sun on your face. Adrenaline coursing through you as you ride up and over the crest of a swelling wave. Dolphins stealthily speeding along on your ...

TAKING TO THE water in an outrigger canoe is not at all leisurely. This canoeing does not include stopping to peer into houseboats on Lake Union or exclaiming over a glorious sunset or pausing to ...