The St. Regis Princeville Resort on Kauai and Kaanapali Beach Hotel on Maui have both recently introduced new outrigger canoe experiences. Photo Credit: Kirk Lee Aeder/Island of Hawaii Visitors Bureau ...

A Coast Guard 45-foot Response Boat Medium escorts the sailing vessel Winona back to Māʻalaea Harbor on Maui, Jan. 29, 2026. The Coast Guard and a good Samaritan rescued multiple people after their ...

Sabine Jessel was first inspired by outrigger-canoe racing when she saw hundreds of women paddling their small canoes to the finish at the 1992 Na Wahine O Ke Kai women’s outrigger-canoe race in ...

Scores of outrigger paddlers will propel their canoes from Newport Harbor on Saturday, setting a course for Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, 27 miles away. The next day, another group will paddle back ...

While the rest of us were enjoying leftover Thanksgiving pie and surfing for cyber deals, members of the Kahakai Outrigger Canoe Club were paddling the 30-mile distance from Avalon to Mothers Beach in ...

Paddling of the Hawaiian style, where an ama is rigged to a hull with two ʻiako, is now global — and has been for some time.

Ann Longnaker couldn't believe her good fortune when she moved back to Duluth in 2004 and learned that she could paddle outrigger canoes. She had lived in Hawaii for more than two years after leaving ...

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 ...

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 ...

Santa is heading south and ditching his usual sleigh for a more traditional mode of island transportation for his annual visit to Waikiki Beach Santa is heading south and ditching his usual sleigh for ...