“So I’m in Valle de Bravo Mexico at 5,500 ft MSL hucking my monkey out of a helicopter in a Skyak with a skydriver kit on. Get settled on the boat after a front flip exit for practice. Then do a couple 360s before pulling. Have a nice opening and good approach. Then everything feels right and I hook a 180 left front riser turn to swoop thru Aaron’s air board team. As I know I’m going to make it thru I throw the tip of the Skyak in and huck a front flip almost thru the risers. I wasn’t sure how it would end but if you dream it enough, it all falls into place and I landed it clean!!!!! High Speed Skyak front flip landing was a huge success today!!!!!!”
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She’s checking out your on-line profile.
“I am a scientist who enjoys bird watching and canoeing.”
“Interesting!” she thinks.
Then she scrolls to the next profile; also a scientist:
“I enjoy white water kayaking, and I study alligators in the wild.”
She passes on you with your canoe, and in eager anticipation sends the kayaker an electronic “wink.”
This, according to a study by psychologist John Petraitis, is what most women will do, but why? … More
HONOLULU – To take the Hokulea for a spin off the coast of Oahu is to see the Hawaiian islands in perhaps the same way as their discoverers did hundreds of years ago.
Those seafarers likely arrived on a boat resembling the double-hulled canoe, bridged by a modest deck, compelled by three sails, steered by a rudder, its components held fast with ropes rather than screws or nails.
Weather willing, the 62-foot vessel is … More
HONOLULU (AP) — When a Polynesian voyaging canoe called the Hokulea embarked on its first trips in Hawaii in the mid-1970s, its crew was trying to prove in part that travel without modern instruments or techniques was possible.
That early crew set out for Tahiti, an island 28 miles wide from more than 2,700 miles away, on a trip that’s roughly like leaving Maine and hitting a bull’s-eye the size of San Diego, without any roads or landmarks to show the way.
In an era of global positioning satellites, this can seem a … More