Category: oc1event

Some old business first: OC1 Races

YAMAGATA CHALLENGE

On April 24, 2021 HIPA held the Yamagata Challenge. A long race but this year there was a short course (10) and a long course race (14). We had paddlers in both courses and it was a great finish to the HIPA race series. Good job guys!

• Long: Jose, Jeff
• Short: Keahi, Grant & Kawai, Greg, Niau (V1-Jr.), Eha (V1-Jr.) Brandi, O-shen Kawaihae (V1. Jr), Dalilah Martin (V1. Jr), Jason, Cother-McKeague La’a (V1 Jr), Malakai Laititi (V1 Jr.), Waiolukea Publico (V1 Jr.), Kwai-Chang, Tanoa Latiti (V1 Jr), Tanoa Latiti (V1 Jr)

Keokea Invitational

Due to Covid and the small launching point, only paddlers invited to do the Keokea run were able to race this 11 mile course which finished at the old Coast Guard Station with paddlers continuing another 3 miles to Kapa’a to haul out in the surf and rocks. This is a race around the northern tip of Big Island were strong currents and wild winds meet. Once you start, you’re committed as there are no places on shore to stop.

Some of the big name paddlers came out to race. Our Keaukaha guys did an awesome job of chasing them down.

• Keokea Hammahs: Jose, Kama, Keahi

Aloha Unlimited Productions “Dash For Cache”

This was a unique downwind, heat style race with top winners walking away with $500. (Sorry about the formatting, keep scrolling down past the videos for more OC6 info)

OC6: Aloha Unlimited Kohala Coastline Race

Kohala Coastline is back in 2021. Teams of 18 from Kiholo to Kawaihae in unlimited canoes. Follow their facebook page for updates.

OC6: Practice and Scrimmage Races

Members have been putting crews together and organizing their canoes and being Corona Virus safe. And just in time for Kai O’pua’s 6-man fun race series. This race series is free (donations accepted) and they provide canoes. The divisions are created by adding up the ages of all your crew members. Total ages are used to divide up results. So grab your 300 year old steersman and go! Did I mention it’s free and they are providing canoes?

Here’s Kai O’pua’s flyer for the event starting tomorrow, May 22 to July 31 and to sign up visit here.

April Art Show Extended to May 15

We’ve extended the April Art Show to May 15 because we understand you can’t just turn creativity on. So show us what you’ve got. Here’s a sample of some submissions.

New Event – May Racing

Starting today, May 1, we are having a series of 4 different time trial races. You can pick and choose which course you want to do and when. You can also pick a fake name (or several) and submit as much race results as you can (or delete your slower times as you go).

Lots of Prizes!

The main price will be randomly chosen from those completing all 4 courses: A donated hybrid paddle cut to the winner’s desired length from HI. Pressure thanks to Keola and Eric.

Top 5 Men and Top 5 Women also get prices, but you’ve got to complete all 4 courses to qualify! Login and get to racing! (After logging in look for the May Racing link or menu Events->May Racing.)

The courses are all inside the bay and use landmarks so no GPS needed or worries about conditions outside the wall. Just bring a watch and huki!

March Madness Awards

After we logged nearly 1100 miles here’s the final standings.

If you want to reveal your identity just login first and go to Events->March Madness and there is a checkbox and a button to turn off your privacy so others can see who they were chasing.

Prizes Already!

Yeah yeah a little late but here are our drawing winners:

• Prize #1 Aloha splash bag – Major Tom
• Prize #2: Snack basket – Leinoaikealohaaina
• Prize #3: Dakine straps – Aaron Norris
• Prize #4: Magpul dry bag – Uphill Stride
• Prize #5: Hydroflask can cooler – N8
• Prize #6: Keaukaha jersey 1 – DLV
• Prize #7: Keaukaha jersey 2 – #2

Contact Kanoe via the Contact Page to get your goodies or track her down on the beach.

April Art Prizes

In case you’ve missed some of the master pieces of GPS spaghetti work, take a look the gallery by logging on and going to Events->April Art Show. If you’re inspired pick a theme (Bunny: Easter, Tree: Earth Day, Heart or Paddle) and upload your art.

Prizes for Artwork:

• Kamanu hat
• Tie straps
• Kamanu leash
• Hulislem polarized sunglasses
• 2 phone bags

See the April Art Show page for photos of the prizes.

May Event

May’s events will be announced soon but we plan to have a bigger prize as well as a grand prize for the series of events! Stay Tuned….

The club reached an impressive 1099.76 miles logged for March, and that’s not including all the people who didn’t log their miles. The top 4 paddlers logged over half of the 1000 miles alone.

Reveal Your Madness

If you participated in the event you’ll know there was a lot of guessing about who was who. Participants can now choose to reveal themselves if they wish. Go to the March Madness page and at the top you’ll see a new option to allow you to display your name in place of the (Private) label that is in the table now. Only people who members of our site can view the the non-private version of the this table, so it’s still not exactly public.

One final note on March Madness. It was interesting to see how consistent some paddlers were with their training. The more consistant you were the more ramp shaped the mileage gain. Here’s the final composite graph and you can see top 3 “Umi Umi Kea”, “PHP” and “#2” had pretty nice shaped ramps meaning they trained in regular intervals.

Prizes!

The prices will be drawn and winners announced soon! Also the prices for the next event will be announced very shortly too. Read on.

April Art Show Is Open

Our latest event will focus more on your mind than your ability to hammer out a ton of miles. This is a test of your navigation and creative skills. We’ve given you 4 subjects to choose from and you, your canoe and your GPS will do the best to try to express your artistic skills.

This month your challenge is to create works of art on the water with your GPS tracks. The subjects you can choose from include: Bunny, Tree, Paddle and a Heart. There’s no limits. You can upload as many “attempts” or as few as you want. Participants automatically get entered in the prize pool and your artwork will be on display for members to enjoy.

Just like the last competition you can use a nickname and you can edit your own log as needed. There might be a few bugs early on as no one has really tested the code out much, so if you run into problems contact us and let us know.

You will need the ability to upload a screen shot of your GPS track. Android and iPhones can easily take screen shots for you. Here’s iPhone instructions and here’s how to do it on android.

Prizes are not based on subjective art quality, but randomized again for participants. When we have a full list of prizes and photos we will post them!

You must login to view club events and participate:

First let’s talk MADNESS then donations raised by the Kaipalaoa Races.

Week 2 March MADNESS

March Madness is in full swing and in case you forgot: Prizes are not based on the miles you paddle, but if you don’t enter you don’t win. Login and see the prizes and enter your miles to qualify for the random drawing!

We’ve had more people join and a new top leader jump in the mix. Umi Umi Kea is in the lead, followed by Oshun Addictshun and #2 is in the #3 position. Batman is flying up the leader board, and you’d think with all this crazy weather Guy Hagi wouldn’t have time to keep up with Juan Barrientos, but they’re tied. Keep paddling! DLV, LXV and 012474 (Jan. 24th 1974?) are coming!

Over 295 miles padded by club members so far this month!

I’m sure we’ll have some more surprises now that this past week of flooding is subsiding and the chocolate waters slowly clear out.

And to you mad paddlers out there paddling: no prizes if you don’t enter! You can enter your miles for any day in March so keep a log and update your online progress. Any questions contact us.

Want to track your miles electronically? Just grab an old cell phone with a GPS and put it in a waterproof bag/case with a tether (the old phone doesn’t even need service to work on wifi or GPS). Free apps like Relive will do the heavy lifting for you. Or pick up a used GPS watch off ebay for about $50.

Kaipalaoa Races Final Donation Totals

A big mahalo to Kwai-Chang and Corrina from So Juicy Hawaii for setting up and running the Kaipalaoa Races here in Hilo as the final totals roll in there was $882 donated by paddlers to support OSMD Hawai’i Foundation and their efforts to get people with muscular disease active again.

Also thanks to the other Keaukaha paddlers from the HUIA Surf Crew who helped with a lot of logistic work to run the race. Lots of people kicked in to help and we had lots of raffle winners. We even had one of the escort boats donate their costs and that went to OSMD too.

Next years race we’ll all be Corona Virus free and we’ll have a bigger race a little later in the season with fewer whales and more parties!