At the tail end of 2024, just before Christmas, a large and memorable swell popped up in the Pacific Ocean. In Hawaii, The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational ran with the requisite 40-foot surf for ...

Canoe surfing, particularly aboard the outrigger style of boats, is one of the oldest forms of riding waves. It dates back to the ancient Polynesians, through the beachboy era in Honolulu, and ...

Polly Ralda recently found herself in a precarious position at Waimea Bay on Oahu. After catching a wave and returning to the lineup, a team of four making a drop on an outrigger canoe came straight ...

Fringe, novelty, yet steeped in tradition. These might be a few ways to describe the current world of outrigger canoe surfing. But it wasn’t always this way. Riding waves in canoes is an ancient ...

The art of outrigger canoe surfing is an ancient Polynesian tradition, with British explorer Captain James Cook first encountering Tahitian natives riding waves in boats as early as 1777. In his ...

Outrigger canoe surfing has been part of Polynesian culture for centuries. Historically, the canoes have played a crucial role in everything from fishing to travel. So a modern family climbing into a ...

Hawai‘i isn’t so much a place surrounded by water as it is a place defined by water. The islands’ culture and history have been shaped by the Pacific ocean for millennia, resulting in a people who are ...