Hacking suspended for post-race behavior
Danny Eslick earned Buell’s first two AMA Pro Racing victories at the March 21-22 Daytona Sportbike races at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.. The two victories offered some redemption from a disappointing Daytona 200 for the Bruce Rossmeyer RMR Buell racer.
Eslick took control early in race one, jumping ahead of polesitter Jamie Hacking of Monster Energy Attack Kawasaki. Eslick’s Buell 1125R led all 21 laps to win by 2.510 seconds. He celebrated his first AMA Pro Road Racing win with … Details
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Hokule’a crew is back home, reflecting on life-changing experience
There’s no telling what sort of assumed truths may suddenly become self-evident when you’re at the helm of a voyaging canoe in the middle of the Pacific.
For 31-year-old Kaimuki resident Angela Fa’anunu, it was this: The world is round.
Fa’anunu was one of a dozen crew members who guided the voyaging canoe’s Hokule’a on its 1,000-mile journey south to Palmyra Atoll last week.
After flying back to Honolulu on Saturday, she and …Â Details
Museum’s double-hull koa canoe is more than 100 years old
The double-hull canoe’s size is not very impressive.
“Medium small,” Junior Coleman said yesterday, not bothering to look up as he went about his work in Bishop Museum’s Hawaiian Hall. “A coastal canoe, maybe interisland on a good day.”
But the gleaming 20-foot, solid koa vessel is more than 100 years old, a treasure of Hawaiian heritage.
It could skim the ocean at about 10 knots, Coleman said, with 180- to 200- square feet of sail, although it probably has never taken the waters…. Details
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A man says he was tired of kids skateboarding on ramps in his Volusia County neighborhood, so he set the ramps on fire.
The sheriff’s office says the man put the neighborhood near Orange City in danger and forced the county to divert firefighters already battling huge brush fires. The man admit he set the skateboard ramps on fire in the middle of this dirt road on 17th Street (see map), near Orange City, because he was fed up with kids playing on them so close to his home.
Lewis Smith, 45, was booked into the Volusia County jail,…Â Details