The Kailua High School Canoe Club will have a fundraising imu on Friday, April 24. Students, faculty and alumni will again work hard, this time to help raise funds for the high school canoe club. The public is again invited to purchase space in the traditional underground oven to cook their food. The imu will be on Friday, April 24. The charge is $15 per tray of food that we cook for you. Food has to be brought in on a …Â Details
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Boating and fishing supply retail giant West Marine, which has more than 340 stores, today opened the largest store in its 34-year history — a 30,200-square-foot prototype superstore near the St. Johns Town Center in Jacksonville.
“We targeted Jacksonville as a great market we wanted to do something special in,†said Bruce Edwards, West Marine executive vice president of stores and port supply.
Two weeks ago, the chain closed two other Jacksonville stores…Â Details
It’s sink or swim for the “Dow Jones,” a concrete canoe built by UCSD’s Society of Civil and Structural Engineers. A team of engineering students loaded the 300-pound concrete canoe into a crate by hand on March 19.
The crate was loaded into a truck headed to the port at Long Beach, from where it will be shipped to Hawaii.
UCSD engineering students will compete against 17 universities from the Pacific Southwest at the annual American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCI) collegiate conference at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on April 2 to 4. The canoe will be judged on its design and its comparative speed to other canoes.
The secret to making this 25-foot concrete canoe float is …Â Details
Faced with this awesome waterfall, most of us would be happy to stand at the side and enjoy the view.
For one man, however, that wasn’t enough. Pedro Olivia risked his life by jumping into his kayak, paddling straight over the edge – and dropping an astonishing 127 feet off the Salto Belo falls in central Brazil.
He fell head first for 2.95 seconds before hitting the churning waters below at 70mph…. Details, Pictures and Video