When you drive around the islands of Samoa, you'll see most families with a little paopao or canoe that they'll use for fishing or to get out to some of the small islands offshore. For many in Samoa, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. (WECT) - Members of the Wrightsville Beach Outrigger Canoe Club are preparing to make a 110-mile trip to raise awareness on the need for clean water. The “We the Water” ...

We're humming now. The 40-foot sliver of yellow cleaves the water of the Duluth harbor. Six of us paddle in perfect synchrony. A stroke almost every second. "Hut!" cries Diane Kivisto of Superior from ...

When John Rockwell Holme suggested on his Facebook page last year that people get together for a paddle around the bay (145 miles around the whole thing) and invite everyone they knew to come along ...

Much like a chess aficionado, Lanikai Canoe Club head coach Scott Freitas commits most of his time at weekly paddling regattas and races to tinkering with and reorganizing his club’s various lineups ...

KAHULUI — With each stroke in the canoe through the sea, Vietnam veteran and longtime paddler Wendall DeVera finds solace. Saying how much the Hawaiian ocean sport has been a positive and helpful ...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii (Aug. 6, 2014) -- For Soldiers in the U.S. Army, Hawaii can be a very unique place to be stationed. Hawaii's tropical climate allows its residents to experience warm weather ...