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Honolulu Star Advertiser Article of the 2011 Steinlager Kaiwi Channel Solo OC-1 World Championship Race.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/20110418_Bartlett_gets_fifth_win_in...
#1 Mon, 04/18/2011 - 1:43am
Iono
Are you sure the fellow in the green shirt on the royal blue Pueo is Kai? It looks strikingly like Brent Beck of New York Outrigger who also participated in the Steinlager race.
#2 Mon, 04/18/2011 - 4:20am
Yankee,
Hit next photo or previous photo and your confusion will be solved.
#3 Mon, 04/18/2011 - 6:00am
Congrats to KAi for another impressive win in awful conditions. First win in surf on a Polaris, next win in booming surf on a Pegasus, 2 wins on a Scorpius in flat stuff and this win in an XM on flat stuff-all canoes he designed and built himself. Mael showed his stuff! Scott Gamble- first year paddling OC1- not too shabby!! The ladies were awesome as well. Karel Sr would always say-"how bad do you want it? Go bully!" Technique, conditioning, determination, dailing in your equipment- pretty much the same in any sport. Congrats to all who paddled and endured those miserable conditions!
#4 Mon, 04/18/2011 - 8:20am
I still want to see top Tahitians paddle this race.
Send a couple of Pueo's and Scorpius XM's down to Tahiti. Let the top paddlers in Tahiti play around in the waves down there with a rudder and then show up for the PAA Molokai OC-1 Race .
I would love to see how the do.
Also it would be an opportunity for some of the new canoe manufactures to put a tahitian on one of their boats to market them in Hawaii and Internationally.
#5 Wed, 04/20/2011 - 5:32am
Better : Send some plane tickets for them to come and ask them to do it with a V1...
#6 Wed, 04/20/2011 - 7:47pm
Don't they have sponsors for plane tickets? If conditions are like this past year, there will be at least 2 V1's in the race next year. Guaranteed.
#7 Wed, 04/20/2011 - 8:19pm
Almost nobody cares about the Molo solo here... so sponsors won't pay for that.
#8 Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:21pm
Hiro, i think you just earned your spot on the Mafia roster. that was pretty damn funny.
#9 Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:44pm
You know what Hiro? Almost nobody here cares about the Molo solo either. But I do. Good job Kai. Good job Lauren. Good job Manny on a great event. It's the OC-1 world championship, not V-1.The whole world is welcome to compete. I look forward to seeing Tahiti come and race the solo with our "training wheels".
#10 Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:08pm
like
A lot.
#11 Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:25pm
ditto on the like, well said ALOEK... i just thought Hiro was funny, just sounded so matter of fact. i care about the solo too. i'm glued to the computer, riding an escort, or out in the water cheering for the finishers pretty much every year.
but never in the race... i'm too wussy.
#12 Thu, 04/21/2011 - 12:26am
ALOEK said it. And besides, Hawaii already has a v1 world championship race... Race around the hat, of course. haha.
Novice c, im not sure who the 2 are you're referring to, but I can't imagine it being anyone who actually did this years solo. I think i was one of the few that somewhat considered entering on a v1, but somewhere around the blurry hour of 3 or 4 I was very glad I didn't... and i'm pretty sure no one finished the race thinking, "damn, that would've been fun on a rudderless."
#13 Thu, 04/21/2011 - 12:05am
Lol! True- there was an international field at Race Around the Hat last summer!
I didn't mean to suggest crossing in a V1 would be fun, unless I adopt the technique on that wake riding video...
Hats off to all who participated, finished, and of course the winners.
#14 Thu, 04/21/2011 - 9:01am
As far as sponsors are concerned the same mindset prevails here in Hawaii for Tahitian races... With the exception of Team Hawaii (funded by one interested party) and Team Kamanu (funded mostly by one entity with the help of a few equipment suppliers) sponsors in Hawaii seem they could care less about what races are going on in Tahiti. I challenge anyone to try and find sponsors to send a youth or adult team to any international race. The HVA team at Hawaiki Nui was basically funded by the parents of its athletes. They made huge financial sacrifices to give their kids that experience. And they had to do this despite the fact that several kids on that team have the potential to be some of the next great paddling athletes that hawaii will produce. At the risk of being a blatant plug recognition should go to Friends of Hawaii Charities, Kamanu Composites, Tiger Canoe and Kayak, and the generous support of paddlers who backed HVA's fundraising efforts by donating funds to defray travel costs.
Take for example Hawaiian Airlines which would be one of the most obvious sponsors and have the most to benefit from increased traffic to Tahiti. They won't touch paddling. This is despite the fact that paddling is featured prominently on the inflight entertainment of every long distance Hawaiian Airlines flight. Kudos to the folks at Ocean Paddler TV for at least getting paddling on there. If more people had the drive or passion that ALOEK, the Dolans, Luke, and a few select others had then we'd all be better off and perhaps more would start to "care".
And yeah, good job everyone.
#15 Thu, 04/21/2011 - 9:31am
What I meant is that sponsors don't care about the Molo solo cause they get no return from it in Tahiti. Nothing on TV, no live show, no one sells OC1 as a business here...
Of course, there are people like me who leave the computer on all day long checking every 15 min on OCpaddler... but basicaly, if one top paddler was to go to Hawaii for the race, he would have to pay with his own money... The same day in Tahiti there's a race where he can make money...
#16 Thu, 04/21/2011 - 1:09pm
How much money can a top paddler in Tahiti make in a single race?
I'm just curious- maybe if we had some number associated with the prize purse per event, we can ask for sponsors and associations to offer money as a prize.
I think the majority of paddlers who entered the Pa'a World Championship Kaiwi Channel race last week did it to challenge themselves, and pay about $1200 to do the race...no thought of actually making money.
#17 Fri, 04/22/2011 - 9:33am
It's not about making a lot of money... It's about spending a lot of money to go from Tahiti to Hawaii, rent a canoe, an escort boat, stay somewhere, not being able to go to work for a whole week (minimum)... for a race that has absolutely no exposure, no echo in Tahiti.
And their sponsors in Tahiti want to see them paddling the local races.
Seen in this month's Pacific Paddler magazine, an add for the Tahiti Nui Va'a race...
Number of adds seen in tahiti for the Kaiwi channel OC1 : zero.
If you want them to come make it attractive for them.
#18 Fri, 04/22/2011 - 8:13pm