U.S. Outrigger Championships
PADDLE – CATALINA ISLAND, CA
Team IMUA finished 4th overall out of 58 teams in the U.S. Championship Outrigger Race – staged as long distance paddle across the Catalina Channel = from Catalina Island to Newport Beach on the mainland of California for a total of 36 miles of Outrigger Canoe Racing. Teams from all over, and a few of Hawaii’s best teams showed up. 1st place was the Outrigger Canoe Club from Hawaii, 2nd Lanakila, 3rd Team Livestrong from Hawaii and 4th Imua/Kaenon from California. This year’s U.S. Championship Outrigger Race has had one of the highest levels of competition in years. The IMUA team wears an assortment of Kaenon’s men’s sunglasses, but mainly Hard Kore while on the water.
The pictures with the awards show Team IMUA with some of the remaining/living members of the first outrigger crossing of the channel 50 years ago.
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