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Talk Story Session: The Women of ʻOnipaʻa
September 28, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Meet ʻOnipaʻa — the first crew of all-female outrigger canoe paddlers to cross the Kaiwi Channel from Molokaʻi to Oʻahu in 1975. For more than three decades, the Kaiwi was considered by Hawaiʻi's men to be too dangerous for women paddlers to attempt…
That all changed one Sunday morning when ʻOnipaʻa and Healani Canoe Club crossed the 41-mile channel in secret anyway just to prove women could do it.
Original crew members will share incredible stories from that historic day in a talk story session with these pioneers of Hawaiian outrigger canoe racing – an accompanying feature published in HAWAII Magazine's September issue.
Just days after this year's Na Wahine O Ke Kai, celebrate and show your aloha to these ladies who paved the way for what's become the most prestigious women's canoe race in the world.
With the hotel's Mahina and Sun's bar on-site, let's pau hana and toast to these pioneers!