Blast From The Past – 1970’s Style Hawaiian Opelu Canoe
My friend Dallas spent some time on the Big Island in his younger days and wanted to build an outrigger fishing canoe like the opelu canoes he used to [...]
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Sep, 2019
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Feb, 2019
Shipwrecked Proa Is A New Year’s Gift
Just after New Year's I was walking Hanalei Bay and stumbled on a Proa canoe shipwrecked on the beach! We had some heavy rains and local flooding and this [...]
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May, 2015
Hawaiian Style Outrigger Canoe For A Kauai Hotel
Bali Hai Villas resort in Princeville, Kauai needs a Hawaiian style outrigger canoe for their lobby. Kule'a Canoes to the rescue!I'm trying something different here: custom cutting each plank to [...]
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Oct, 2014
Pacific Fusion Outrigger Canoe For A Waikiki Hotel
My friend, Tevita Kunato, was commissioned to build a canoe for the Rainbow Hilton in Waikiki. I guess it will be used in their private lagoon for photo shoots [...]
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May, 2014
Origami Canoe – Cutting And Bending The Outrigger Canoe Into Shape
I had an idea for building an outrigger canoe - bend a sheet of plywood to form the middle section of the canoe, and the cut and 'fold' the [...]
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Oct, 2013
Hawaiian Style Opelu Outrigger Fishing Canoe
OK! I finished my opelu style outrigger canoe! It took 3 months from making the first model to putting the wa'a in the water. Pretty good time, I think! [...]
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May, 2013
The Hawaiian Canoe by Tommy Holmes
By many this book is considered the definitive source – The Bible – of Hawaiian outrigger canoes. Covering an historical perspective of Hawaiian canoe design from pre-contact to modern times. [...]
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Apr, 2013
Traditional Outrigger Kanu by Tevita Kunato
A few years back (sometime in 2009) my friend Tevita Kunato decided to make a traditional style outrigger canoe; Tevita was born and raised in Papua New Guinea and [...]
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Apr, 2013
Kayak Fishing… What Happened To The Outrigger Canoe?
As I left Hilo last week, on my way home to Kauai, I looked through the airlines in-flight magazine "Hana Hou!". A story caught my attention: “Who Needs A Bigger [...]