Our 26th year!
Our 26th year!
Hawaii's oldest and largest recreational kayak club
This site is the official source for the 2008 Day-Paddle Schedule for the
Hui Wa'a Kaukahi kayak club of Hawai'i,
as well as legal stuff, articles, photos, and news of note. When changes occur in the schedule, it will be posted here first, so before you throw your boat on top of the car, check the pertinent page here to see if the time has changed or the put-in has moved!
Next paddles - Next meeting - Sun Aug 24 - Kahe Point to Pokai Bay - along the Waianae Coast
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Tues Sept 16 - Heads up, fisherpersons! Members Chuck Ehrhorn and Steve Harris will enthrall us with tales of the big ones that got away, and pictures of the ones that didn't.
Until we find a new permanent home, the meeting place will move each month, sorry about the confusion or inconvenience. August's meeting will be back at the Church Of The Crossroads in Moiliili, where we used to meet last year. In case you can't remember that far back, I have included a little map...
Sun Aug 31 - Pokai to Makua - continuing up the Leeward Coast to meet the dolphins Special Events:
Tim Sawyer's Bragging Rights Fishing contest was on May 4 at Malaekahana Park. Chuck Ehrhorn won with a 2.7# papio and Stan McCrea came in second.
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The Progressive Fishing Tournament for 2008 is under way. If you want to know how the competion is shaping up this year, check out our new Fishing Pages.
Sun Sept 1 (Labor Day) - Waikiki Roughwater Swim: need a few escort volunteers to be safety marshalls
The Windbag Regatta is on for Sept 7
site updated
Aug 20, 2008Please let me know ASAP if you have a suggestion for an event. Please note that there are still a few paddles that don't as yet have leaders, so please think about volunteering.
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Special events, news & announcements:
The 9th Annual Surf Aloha was blessed, or perhaps stunned, by very large wave sets and a rising onshore wind, which was good for some classes like Kaos & Strike, but not so good for others like Scuppers and the small surf skis. And. of course, it provided high hilarity in the final tandem event! A grand time was had by all, and all the final results are posted on the SurfAloha website, but sadly, it looks like this will have been the last wave for this event. As an all-volunteer enterprise, a dwindling supply of folks willing and able to pour huge amounts of their personal time into putting it all together each year has forced us to close our doors on this project for the last time (unless, of course, somebody steps out of the shadows before next summer...). Particular mahalos to Jodi Dingle and Lois Miyashiro for being the go-to people for this year's event, and let's not forget the dozens of behind-the-scenes volunteers and organizers that pitched in over the many years to make this the great, fun competition it became. Mahalo nui loa, everyone, and don't forget to
Surf Aloha!The 25th Anniversary Hui Wa'a Kaukahi Kane'ohe Bay Bash! was a roaring success, by anyone's standards. Plenty people turned out for the "Dingle Dunk" on Sat and the "Hat-'n-Back" relay race on Sunday. In addition, the 8th Annual Kayak Fishing Tournament pulled in a record 20 contestants and landed a record number of fish! Dennis Harney won a Scrambler XT Angler kayak with his just-barely-in-time 12.5-lb. ulua 'aukea (Giant trevally), and Stan McCrea won the Papio Division with a 8.1-lb 'omilu (Blue trevally).
The full results are here, Details are in The LifelineThe 2nd annual Kaneohe Bay Bash and the 9th annual Kaneohe Bay Kayak Papio Fishing Tournament (KBKPFT) is in the planning stages for Sept. 20 & 21. Once again, we are hoping to give a kayak or two away as prizes, courtesy of Ocean Kayaks and Go Bananas Kayaks.
Other notices:
- The Progressive Fishing Tournament(PFT) for 2008 started with the Jan 6 paddle. If you want to compete this year, you should read the rules first as there is a funny little scoring system for this. Check it out. Also check for your place in the Standings
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Club Documents:
Articles from “The Lifeline”
The Lifeline is a periodical newsletter of Hui Wa'a Kaukahi, published quarterly, and distributed free to all members in both paper and emailed PDF form. Articles and photographs for inclusion in the newsletter may be submitted by members and non-members alike, as long as they are kayak-related, of interest to the general membership, and are non-commercial. All submissions must be received by the Editor (Alan) by the deadline date below. His email is kayak-fool(at)hawaii.rr.com
The following submissions are accepted:
- Articles, preferably with pictures
- Pictures with short captions (The Lifeline is presently printed in B&W, but Website reprints will be in color)
- Classified ads - kayaking-related, noncommercial
- Announcements - kayaking-related
- Letters to the Editor
The deadline for the next issue is
July 6th
mailout is 12th
Legal Stuff
General Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month (except December), and are open to the public. We are presently looking for another permanent meeting place, but until we find one, each meeting will be in a different place, I'm afraid. Look on the schedule each month for clues.
Trip Leader's Release and Waiver Form. All paddle leaders should have a copy of this at each event, and ensure that every paddler has signed it before joining the group. Please see the requirement of ACA membership below. This is a PDF version of the waiver form that will print on three pages with all formatting intact. To view or print this form, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed as a plug-in on your computer. If you don't already have it and want to get it, you can download it for free by clicking this button.
Paddle Ratings: We spent a long time coming up with a system that made sense for the kind of kayaking we actually do here, so please read it carefully. You can also click on the rating icon contained in the event description to see the whole page.
Notice to Non-members: Just because we have posted our schedule on the world stage is not to say that these events are open to the public. Because of insurance concerns, these paddles are for Members only. If you live in Hawaii and are interested in becoming a member and joining us, please e-mail Rusty at the address below for info about coming to one of our regular meetings. Please read the FAQs about the club before you do - there is a PDF version of our new Membership Form here that can be printed and mailed in.
Please Note: There has been a change in the Club dues structure recently - membership in ACA is still required in order to participate in our outdoor activities, but is no longer "free" - as in, "included in your yearly dues." There is an explanation of the dues here. Don't panic. It's still a good deal...
Now read this:
The entire contents of this Website, including text, photographs and other graphics, are copyrighted 2008 by Hui Wa'a Kaukahi, a Hawaii nonprofit corporation, except as noted. No part of this Website may be copied, reproduced or retransmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the Webmaster of this site. Even if permission is obtained, the content source and author must always be acknowledged.
Comments, etc to contact@huiwaa.nospam.org (Remove the .nospam before sending, obviously). Any email sent MUST have the word "kayak" or "kayak club" in the Subject line, or it will be automatically deleted...
The same rule applies to all mail sent to these other Hui addresses:
the addy for the e-notices is subscribe@huiwaa.nospam.org and Lifeline article submissions is editor@huiwaa.nospam.orgRusty Lillico, Webmaster,
Hui Wa'a Kaukahi Kayak Club, PO Box 11588, Honolulu, HI 96828Membership applications and payments can be mailed to Aimee Chilan, at the same PO as above.
Mailing list queries to Paul Tibbetts at hwk_membership@hawaii.nospam.rr.com (same procedure as above)
