Molokai Hoe 2012

Last week, club member Todd Jago was in Hawaii for the Molokai Hoe 2012, the men's world championship for outrigger canoe racing. His team, Te Awahaku, came 30th out of 100 teams - which is awesome, and the best result the team has had in five crossings. The race was 75kms, which they paddled in 6:15:53. Considering that the winning time for the first ever Molokai Hoe, in 1952, was almost 9 hours, Te Awahaku did pretty well!

The day before the race, Todd's crew member, Daniel Firth, wrote:

"Race day tomorrow but unfortunately there is no swell and no wind! The forecast for the channel is 3ft dropping to under 2ft and a tail wind of 10 kts! It's going to be slow with no waves to catch and bloody HOT with no wind! At least its only 75kms. At this stage we are having some other minor technical difficulties with our support boat driver being a little bit of a con man who knew his boat is too small to be allowed to be a support boat! Hopefully we find one another one today!"
  
Find out more information about the Molokai Hoe here.