Another Episode in the Vaka Eiva 2008 series of videos. This was so much fun to shoot and edit, hope you enjoy it.
Held at picturesque Muri Lagoon, the sprint events are always keenly contested but most importantly, a huge amount of fun!! The World Famous “pop the ama” competition is a blast as are the "Boat Races"
The paddlers love this day and it sets the mood Muri Mingler" that nite on the beach.
http://rambos-locker.blogspot.com/2009/05/vaka-eiva-muri-sprints-fun.html

Start the video then pause it, make a cuppa and let it fully load. Then you can play it as many times as you like for only one download as long as you don't close the window.

The soundtrack is a big part of the mood, turn it up loud. Play it in full screen if you like, just clip on the full screen button at the bottom of the video but you will lose resolution. Features some fantastic underwater and slow -mo sequences.

Cheers Ramboscie

Overall winners For the Olukai Ho'olaule'a

One Man Overall Men:

1st - Manny Kulululualani
2nd - Danny Ching
3rd - Kai Bartlett

One Man Overall Women:

1st - Andrea Moller
2nd - Emili Janchevis
3rd - Dane Ward

SUP Overall:
Dave Kalama - Overall men
Andrea Moller - Overall Women

Olukai paid out $15,000.00 in prize money, spilt equally between the men and women! What an awesome company to have stepped up in the way they did.

The event was fun. Mahalo to Olukai for putting on such a fun race weekend! The new show with this race, will start to air June 2nd at 6:30pm Hawaii time.

Results someone ?

1. Hank McGregor 3:54:32 (unofficial)
2. Tim Jacobs
3. Lewis Laughlin
4. Dave Kissane
5. Travis Mitchell
6. Dan McCabe
   7th Dave Tudor Jones
   8th Zsolt Szadovski - 1st HI
   9th Paul Green
   10th Toby Barbour
   11th Steve Kelly
   12th Steve Coulter
   13th Ash Nesbit
   14th Clint Robinson
   15th Chris Ball
   16th Patrick Hemmens

   The women:

7. Katie Pocock
8. Naomi Flood
9. Lauren Bartlett.

I wanted to make it know to the paddling community to beware of a person named Jeffrey Lerner.
He lives in Philadelphia PA. but may have some ties to a paddling club in Maui. I am not sure of the connections but I was told that he was able to line up a canoe for some paddlers attending a race in Hawaii.

This person has stolen products from us & may be attempting to sell them illegally. The inventory of merchandise consists of PaddleMe Logo’d Paddle Bags, Men’s & Women’s Paddling Shorts & Jerseys.
Through an investigation, this person has been scamming other as well.
For example:
1) He has sold merchandise and never delivered or refunded the money.
2) Organized an event & sold tickets – the event was fictitious and never happened. He advertised that the proceeds would go to charity, but when contacted the charity has no knowledge of him.
On each occasions he represented himself with fictitious name. His real name is Jeffrey Lerner.

He has advertised selling Kialoa & Chinook paddles as well.

His known website was www.alohawaves.com -- it has since been shutdown but he may have others.

If you have contact with this person please beware. We can be contacted at info@paddleme.com

Some "rendez vous" in France :
The first one in Saint Jean de Luz Bay, organized by Belharra Waterman Club, may 24th :

From ninefeet

Then Bordeaux, June 20th :

And Guéthary, August 15th :

All details on Ocean Outrigger :
http://www.ocean-outrigger.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1...

aloha everyone,

just curious, i was wondering if anyone knew where i could find and then purchase some quiksilver paddle stickers? specifically the sticker with the quiksilver logo with the one man outrigger paddler added to it. i have been looking around and can't find any retailers. if you know where i can find some that would be grand. big mahalo for all your help in this matter.

aloha,

mark

or have him call me

Was talking with a friend about the next Molokai OC6 race.
He told me "What race ? Are you sure they're going to run the Molo this year ? They must be tired of loosing !"

;-)

Hey Guys,

Volunteered to change some rudder cables on a couple older skis. One is a Rose Ski, not sure of the other one.
I have never had a problem doing this before but never changed them on these older boats which have REALLY skinny cable housings. Think cocktail mixer straws. On one, the old cables slide back and forth EZ, the other seems to be binding slightly ... Normally would not hesitate to pull old ones out as I feed new ones in right behind them as a precaution but the snug one has me a little chicken to do this. Anyone ever run into problems such as the housing splitting inside the boat / out of reach on these older boats ? Would hate for it to go to pieces as I pull the old one out.

Thanks.
aloha,
pog