Fun day tug wake surfing on Shilshole Bay in Seattle. Check out my freighter wave session video from later in the day.
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Hawai’i’s state treasure, the voyaging canoe Hokule’a is on a 47,000-mile journey around the world to bring people together to protect our earth and oceans.
Over the past 40 years, Hokule’a has sailed 150,000 miles throughout the Pacific Ocean, reconnecting the nearly-lost voyaging traditions of islands throughout the Polynesian Triangle. The design of our voyaging canoe, Hokule’a, mimics the ancient wa’a kaulua, or double-hulled sailing canoes, used by Polynesian seafarers a thousand years ago to find and settle every inhabitable island within 10 million square miles of the Pacific. Hokule’a’s deck, stretched between double hulls, is open to the elements. She is lashed together without steel rigging, or metal fasteners … More
Freya Hoffmeister, a former Miss Germany beauty pageant contestant known as the Goddess of Love to the Seas, has proven her paddling skills yet again by becoming the first person to circumnavigate the entire South American continent by sea kayak, solo and unsupported.
On Friday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hoffmeister, 50, completed the final two kilometers of the 26,908-kilometer (16,720 miles) circumnavigation accompanied by a fleet of local paddlers and well wishers, including European Union ambassador Alfonso Díez Torres and her partner, Peter Unold … More
FEATURING: Rafa Ortiz, Rush Sturges, Ben Marr, Steve Fisher, Erik Boomer, Aniol Serrasoles, Todd Wells, Evan Garcia, Anthony Yap, Tyler Bradt, Patrick Camblin, Joel Kowalski, Ben Brown, Shane Raw, Jakub Sedivy, Casper Van Kalmthout
Frontier follows up where Dream Result left off, following a group of kayakers on another adventure around the globe. Featuring footage from Mexico, China, Iceland, Norway, Northwest U.S.A., B.C., Quebec.