Molokai gets a koa canoe.
Molokai paddlers take the island’s new koa canoe for its maiden voyage at Kamalo Wharf. Photo by Ed Misaki…
… For the first time in over 30 years, Molokai has its own koa canoe. The canoe took its maiden voyage at Kamalo Wharf last Thursday, and was celebrated by the island’s four canoe clubs which will be sharing the outrigger.
“It’s a special day in our lives,†said one community member who has been involved in building the canoe. “We’re celebrating Hawaiian culture.  Details
For most of the competitors at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the possibility of mounting the podium to claim an Olympic medal represents the very pinnacle of sporting achievement: usually the payoff of many years of blood, sweat and tears. However, in 2008, being the best athlete is no longer necessarily enough: in most events the Gold Medal winner will also have had the aid of the very best sporting equipment.
For this reason, the battle for Gold begun long ago in the offices and testing facilities of research centres, where the sports equipment used by the competitors in the Beijing Olympics has been constantly optimized and improved. Canoeing is one of the fields where extensive research has been performed into minimizing hull resistance using state of the art measurement and experimental techniques, backed extensively by Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation using CD-adapco software…Â Details
Paddling on its home course, Kailua Canoe Club won today’s King Kamehameha Regatta to end Lanikai’s run of 15 straight O’ahu Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association wins that started in late 2006.
Kailua finished with 98 points in the AAA division at Kailua Beach. Lanikai was …Â Details
University of California, Berkeley Wins National Concrete Canoe Competition
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala., June 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Despite the clouds, thunder and occasional lightning, the event being held yesterday at Tuscaloosa’s Lake Nicol looked like an ordinary canoe race. The canoes these competitors were racing were far from ordinary, though; in fact, the competitors themselves were anything but typical. They were civil engineering students from across the United States and Canada, and the canoes they were racing are made of concrete.
With equal parts technical skill, creativity and determination, the University of California, Berkeley captured the ‘America’s Cup of Civil Engineering’ yesterday at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 22nd Annual National Concrete Canoe Competition. Their first championship since 1992, Berkeley’s 230 pound, 20-foot-long canoe, the Bear Area, defeated entries from 21 other top engineering schools.
“Over the past three days, these outstanding civil engineering students have shown that technical skills combined with an innate sense of creativity can turn a seemingly impossible task into a reality,” … Details & Results