Key West World Championships are to kick off with a parade of race boats down the island’s legendary Duval Street, slated to begin at 4pm Sunday, November 7. The action continues throughout the week, with leading American and international teams to compete in high-speed races Wednesday, November 10; Friday, November 12, and Sunday, November 14.Â
A portion of the challenging 6.5-mile course runs through Key West Harbor, meaning smooth water where racers can achieve speeds above 140 mph and fans can watch from vantage points breathtakingly close to the action.Â
Varying water conditions along the course afford race teams the chance to … Details
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COFFS Coast Outrigger Canoe Club has achieved another milestone with six members gaining selection in the inaugural Australian men’s crew.
The boys will compete at the upcoming Moloka’i Hoe race in Hawaii on October 10.
The race covers a distance of approximately 71 kilometres across the Kaiwi Channel, starting on the island of Moloka’i and finishing at Waikiki in Oahu. Providing the trade winds are favourable, the men’s event is expected to take between 4.5 and 5 hours to complete. The local club members who have been selected in the nine-member team are Mike Mills-Thom, Gordon Polkinghorne, Matt O’Garey, Daniel Jenkin, Tim Blay and Tony Bishop. Other members of the Australian team come from Sydney-based clubs  … Details
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The world’s top speed sailors will converge on Luderitz and will attempt to break speed sailing records at the 4th Luderitz Speed Challenge from 4 to 31 October.
This year the challenge will be to break the 54 knots barrier and to be able to achieve this, the canal will be wider at the start to make entry as easy as possible. The sand removed from the canal will be laid to create a wall to protect during the high tide.
As a result of these changes the canal will be safer compared to previous years.
The canal will now be 10m wide, 700m long and 1m deep.
For the first time the three disciplines of  … Details
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HONOLULU — The city has started construction on a canoe halau at Ala Moana Beach Park, a project that was first proposed 20 years ago.
A blessing ceremony held Thursday marked the beginning of a project Luana Froiseth’s mother Moku and other legendary outrigger canoe paddlers first dreamed of in the early ’90s.
“They picked out places around Oahu that most of the clubs had their practice sites and they came up with 13 sites,” said Froiseth. “This is the eighth one.”
For years, the clubs who practice at Ala Moana Beach Park have had to leave their canoes out in the elements. When the halau is completed … Details
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