The Micronesian community in Milan is learning about its heritage as well as connecting with the Dakota communities at the Lower and Upper Sioux. Some 30 Micronesian men built an authentic outrigger ...

A short stint on the sea reveals the rigors canoe teams endure in Hawaii My dusty old Girl Scout paddling badge was about to pay off. The nine canoe teams that had raced partway around Maui the day ...

The starting horn echoed bright and early Monday morning across Port Townsend Bay to launch the fifth annual running of a madcap maritime marathon. The 750-mile Race to Alaska has been compared by its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some visitors never tire of the standard options for enjoying Hawaiian waters: swim, snorkel, surf or simply sunbathe on the beach. Others occasionally paddle the coast in kayaks or ride waves on ...

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 ...

Solomon Pali, 55, is the outrigger canoe instructor at the Fairmont Kea Lani Hotel on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Q: How long have you been paddling? A: Since I was a child — a keiki, in the Hawaiian ...

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 ...

The "Vaapiti" double-hulled canoe in the shallow waters off the coast of Moorea. Vaapiti/dpa-tmn Sailing is all about balance. I step over the narrow bow of the bug to take the outstretched hand of ...