A History of the Molokai to Oahu Outrigger Canoe Race

Written By: Peter Caldwell

Published By: Editions Limited Hawaii

304 Pages, 550 Images, Hard Cover

http://www.molokaicanoerace.com

 

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Anatomy of the Kaiwi Channel

Moloka‘i Hoe

The Legacy of Toots
The First Crossing: 1952
Kawäkiu Years: 1953-1962
Hale o Lono: 1963-1972
Paddletics and Growth: 1973-1974
The Tahitians Arrive: 1975-1977
California Ascends: 1978-1982
The Boys from Outrigger: 1983-1988
Raising the Bar: 1989-1994
The Lanikai Era: 1995-2005
Future Thoughts

Na Wahine O Ke Kai

A Dream and a Crossing
The First Official Race: 1979
Momentum Builds: 1980-1985
A Dynasty Emerges: 1986-1991
A Streak Broken, A Streak Resumed: 1992-1996
Thunder from Down Under: 1997-1998
Back Home in the Islands: 1999-2002
Aussies Rule Again: 2003-2004
Wide Open: 2005

Facts, Figures & Miscellany

Moloka‘i Hoe: Race Director’s Perspective
Talking Story with Nappy
Moloka‘i Hoe Summarized Race Results
Moloka‘i Hoe Winning Finish Times
Na Wahine O Ke Kai: Race Director’s Perspective
Na Wahine O Ke Kai Summarized Race Results
Na Wahine O Ke Kai Winning Times
Moloka‘i Miscellany
Race Rules and Changes 

As an outrigger canoe paddler, this publication will provide a fascinating and intriguing addition to your library as a historical perspective of this great race and of the development of ocean racing. This book captures the challenge, drama and tradition of the event. With complete records, memorabilia, and fascinating sidebars and coverage. The unpredictable Kaiwi Channel, separating the island of Molokai and Oahu, one of the roughest of tropical inter island channels demands greatly of the crews who must contest conditions each year varying from glassy to fearsome, with extremes of wind and huge waves.Complex coastal currents and tide factors encountered off Oahu make the race strategically challenging. For the winners, it is a tribute to a combination of excellence in preparation, conditioning, teamwork and strategy.

Founded in 1952 for men and 1979 for women, the race attracts an international field of crews and which has fostered a colourful history rich in tradition. Each year’s competition has a story of its own to tell. Molokai - Oahu through the Years, highlights each race, provides anecdotes and input and commentary from many of the events most respected participants along with a unique collection of both historical and current photographs.

 

Paddling in Hawaii, A Photo Essay by Joss

Hardcover, 128 pages. Price: USD$25.95

ISBN: 1566476275, Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: December 2003

Publisher: Mutual Publishing Company

You've seen outrigger canoes from the shore, either riding waves in Waikiki? or moving along the shore in team practices or long-distance races, and you've seen the smaller one- and two-man canoes on the roofs of cars. Now you can experience the beauty and excitement of this sport from close up. In a series of photographs, Joss Descoteaux captures the essence of an activity as old as Hawaiian culture, and reveals to those unfamiliar with canoe paddling and confirms to experienced canoe paddlers the special attraction of challenging the ocean in a craft that is the product of ancient engineering genius.

These images are the work of a skilled professional photographer and an expert in the sport. Whether picturing the canoe as cultural artifact or as a practical vehicle, being lifted by a wave or resting on the beach, these are photographs of great artistic quality, many taken from the center of action, to give an intimate sense of the physical demands, the skills, the wild exhilaration and even some of the mishaps of this sport.

JOSS fell in love with Hawai'i and its waters at age seventeen after racing in the Moloka'i Hoe for the Canadian crew. Today he is a fulltime Hawai'i resident, photographer, and waterman. www .JOSS4.com

The Aloha Shirt

Authors: Dale Hope, Gregory Tozian

Format: Hardcover, 211 pages

Publication Date: October 2000

Publisher: Beyond Words Pub Co

Dimensions: 11"H x 10.25"W x 1.25"D; 3.3 lbs.

ISBN-10: 1582700346

ISBN-13: 9781582700342

List Price: USD$45.00

The Aloha Shirt provides a stunning pictorial history of the evolution of the Hawaiian shirt as an icon of relaxation, casual dress, and the allure of the islands. Includes a gallery of shirts which shows the best collection ever assembled of rare and valuable shirts. 400 color photos. Dale Hope is a well respected Hawaiian waterman with a long history within the Hawaiian apparel industry. Originally the idea was concieved between he and friend, the late Tommy Holmes another great waterman and paddler and author of the Hawaiian Canoe. This is a great read and visually stunning.

The Hawaiian Canoe    

Tommy Holmes

ISBN: 0915013150

Format: Hardcover, 220p

Pub Date: 1981

Pub: Editions Limited 

This is the definitive comprehensive work on the history, skills and traditions of the Hawaiian canoe from ancient voyaging craft through the evolution to the modern racing canoe. Numerous specially commissioned diagrams and illustrations, along with a wealth of photographs; many previously unpublished, will delight anyone with an interest in the maritime history of Hawaii. Starting at the time of Christ, Polynesians began probing the farthest inhabitable reaches of the Pacific. By 1200 A.D. they had settled remote Easter Island to the east, Hawaii to the north, and New Zealand to the south---in short, every habitable island in a sweep of blue roughly equal in size to the entire land mass of the Western hemisphere. They discovered the Pacific, where there were roughly two units of land for every thousand units of water. It would be centuries before western man would venture out of sight of land. Hawaii, land of the most geographically isolated culture on earth, would be discovered and settled more than a thousand years before Captain Cook was born.

Canoes of Oceania

Haddon and Hornell. Bishop Museum Press. Honolulu.

 

Outrigger Canoes of Bali, Madura, Indonesia

Horridge. Bishop Museum Press. Honolulu. 

 

Hawaiian Canoe Building Traditions

Kamehameha Schools Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate. Honolulu.

 

Waka Taua. The Maori War Canoe

Jeff Evans. Reed Books. Auckland NZ.

 

The Last Navigator

Steve Thomas. McGraw Hill. Camden. Maine.