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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

As first noted by Magellan’s assistant in the 16th Century while in the Mariana Islands, outrigger canoes were faster and more maneuverable than any of the like-sized craft used by Europeans. The ...

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 ...

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 ...