[Photos] by Marjie Santos
[Photos] by Virginia Isbell
Following are the results of Keoua Canoe Club’s 18th Annual Calvin Kelekolio Long Distance Race held Saturday, August 21, 2004, at Honaunau Bay, Kona, Hawaii. This long distance race is in memory of Calvin Kelekolio who founded Keoua Honaunau Canoe Club in 1974, in the tradition of Honaunau Canoe Club.

Lanikai Canoe Club’s open men’s crew of Koa Bruhn, Kaai Bruhn, Mike Pederson, David Daniels, Peter Binney, George Leslie, John Foti, Jim Foti, and Kai Bartlett, won the 2004 Makaha Canoe Club Kaena Challenge long distance canoe race from Sunset Beach to Makaha Beach in a record time of 2:53:28 beating Team New Zealand / Hawaii’s 2003 time of 2:58:15. Outrigger Canoe Club finished second at 2:54:06 and Kailua third at 3:07:42.

[Results]
[Hawaiian makes it four in a row] (Honolulu Advertiser)
[Kihei, Wailea make it clean sweep for Maui] (Honolulu Advertiser)
[Hawaiian Canoe Club 4-Peats] (Star Bulletin)

[Y2Kanu Photos] courtesy Rick Leton
[Marjie Santos' Photos]

[Photos]
Budday Martin (Germany), world champion dragon boat racing wins the first ‘North Sea Outrigger Canoe Championships’ in Knokke, Belgium...First Championships in Belgium biggest OC1 event in Europe !!

[Photos] by Steve Gates from the finish at Kalapaki.

A canoe, 100 miles, six paddlers, and a sail. It sounds simple, and hey, it's sailing isn't it? How hard of a race can it be? Surely, we'll have plenty of time to eat, hydrate, and enjoy the scenery right? At least that's what I was thinking Friday evening as we were preparing our canoe for Hawaiian Sailing Canoe Association's Na Holo Kai race from Haleiwa, Oahu to Kalapaki Beach on Kaua'i. Maybe, if you've done this before, you'll smile at my inexperience (I was, as Butch said, "a Na Holo Kai virgin"), if not, well let me tell you, this race is no walk in the park. It's more like a run in the park, nonstop, for over eight hours.

[Honolulu Advertiser]
[Star Bulletin]

Sunday, August 1, 2004 Press Release

AUSSIE MITCHELL BREAKS RECORD FOR QUIKSILVEREDITION MOLOKAI TO OAHU
Nine Over The Line in Record Time & Five-Minute Foran First With Stock
Shock

[Mudbrook News]

[Results]

OC1 and V1 Race weekend with 500 m sprints on saturday and 20km race on sunday (17/18th of july). It was a big step forward for european OC1/ V1 racing with paddlers competing from England, Sweden, Hungary, Italy, France,US, Germany and Belgium with a beautiful location at surfersparadise in Knokke (Belgium) with the organisation of Danny Dhooghe from the Northsea Outrigger Canoe Club.
Picutures and results you can see at www.outriggercanoe.de

Well, Kaua'i really does have regattas.. The Garden Island Canoe Racing Association held this years championship regatta this past saturday in Hanalei bay. The weekends winning teams have qualified to paddle in the State Championship in August.
[Photos]
[we patiently await the results from GICRA]

Earlier regattas of the season have gone by quick and sadly without much mention outside of Kauai's paddling community. To sum it up, the Kauai regatta season is like every other island, except we race half miles most of the time and never bring out the Koa canoes. Not to criticize the race officials, they do a fine job, but I think we could all put a bit more effort into making Kaua'i more competitive on the State level.