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I was off-rhythm, paddling in a foreign vessel with a wooden paddle that looked like a decoration. My lower back, out of shape and not used to this movement, was tight. But, oh, that mid-summer sunset on the Columbia River.

We were in a six-seated outrigger canoe called “Weird Eddie.”

“We consider the baha, or the boat, one of the crew,” said Doug Keeney, a Camas resident and president of the Columbia River Outrigger Canoe Club (CROCC). “She is there to protect us along the water and we’re there to move her forward.”   …  More

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