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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You won't find Don Ho impersonators, fields of sugar cane or Waimea Bay waves, but Bend is home to a business that evolved from a hobby building wooden outrigger paddles in Hawaii into a global paddle ...

The high school outrigger canoe paddling season starts this week and the Pu‘uwai Canoe Club is going to have over 100 students. It has $1,000 to buy paddles, but that’s 10 or 12 paddles at best, and ...

While a crew team would keep their heads down and plow through any competition thrown at them, an outrigger canoe club paddles right through the scenic adventure. An adventure is exactly what ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the paddles slice the water and propel an outrigger canoe onward in this video, it doesn’t take much imagination to feel like you’re there. You’re watching the Red Bull Wa’a, an outrigger team ...

Without Whitey Harrison, two things in California may not exist. One is the outrigger canoe. The other is the Dana Outrigger Canoe Club. Developed by the indigenous people of Hawaii and mainly used ...