The Outrigger Canoe Club team includes Natasha Haine, left, Jennifer Lyons, Mary Smolenski, Britta Bourne, Angie Dolan, Jennifer Fratzke, Shannon O’Neill, Traci Phillips, Kahala Schneider and Amy ...

Paddle blades flash through the water, pumping in and out in a hypnotic, synchronized motion, sending a gleaming outrigger skimming across the ocean’s surface. The canoe quickly reaches paddling ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are taking things one paddle stroke at a time,” said Christine Villanueva, paddle sports advocate and founding member of the Philippine Outrigger Canoe Club. Villanueva recently set up House of ...