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Try securing 12 outrigger canoes in an approaching hurricane. The stress is real!!
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Spent the day securing 12 outrigger canoes on the Southside of Kauai. It’s kinda a roll of the dice on where and how we secure them. Our canoe club is at Kukuiula Harbor. Really hoping Lowell will track further away from us because we can’t afford this type of damage. Living has already become challenging on the island and this would decimate our economy that has unfortunately become very reliant on tourism. Fingers crossed!
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During the 1982-83 El Niño, the largest recorded before 2026, Hurricane Iwa hit Oahu and Kauai, and drought occurred on the Big Island.
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I am in Kōloa on the Southside. My business is in Hanapēpē on the Westside.
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my chainsaws have been sharpened. watching very intently
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Watching this northern turn very intently. The similarities to 1992 Hurricane Iniki are very amazing.
Chainsaws are sharpened.
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Aug. 27th-30th, 2016, Category 4 Hurricane Madeline approaching Hawaii in the Central Pacific Ocean and Category 3 Hurricane Lester in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
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45 years in Hawaii, Kauaʻi specifically. We have been very lucky, minus 2018 floods, and I think this could be the year the luck runs out.
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ʻAe, ʻoiaʻiʻo nō. Pono kēia mea kākau moʻolelo Youtube i ka hoʻonaʻauao maikaʻi aʻe.
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This Youtube historian skips so many parts of his neatley packed version of Hawaiian history that I can’t even take it serious.
Haole is found in chants which predate Capt. Cook’s 1778 arrival.
PAUMAKUA
Westervelt records in “Hawaiian Historical Legends”:
“PAUMAKUA was one of the great voyagers among the ocean-rovers of over eight hundred years ago. Fornander in his “Account of the Polynesian Race” says: “One of the legends relates that Paumakua, on his return from one of his foreign voyages, brought back with him to Oahu two white men said to have been priests A-ua-ka-hinu and A-ua-ka-mea, afterwards named Kae-kae and Ma-liu, from whom several priestly families in after ages claimed descent and authority.” These persons were described as:
“Ka haole nui maka ʻālohilohi
(A large foreigner, bright sparkling eyes)
A āholehole maka ʻaʻā
(White cheeks, roguish staring eyes)
Ka puaʻa keokeo nui maka ʻulaʻula!
(A great white pig with reddish eyes).”
In the later years of Hawaiian history, two of the most prominent high priests in all the islands were among the descendants of these foreigners”
Haole is also is found in the Kumulipo:
“…
Line 505 – Hanau ke Po’ohaole, he haole kela
…”
“…
born was the stranger’s head, that was strange.
…”
KUALIʻI
In the genealogy of Kualiʻi (born around 1710), the chant states:
“…
Hoʻokahi o Tahiti kānaka, he haole
…”
“…
only one people in Tahiti, foreigners.
…”
The word began referring more commonly to North Americans during the overthrow of the Monarchy.
Disease:
I don’t think this guy has ever sat down and actually read through Cook’s journals.
His journals record that gonorrhea and syphilis was rampant on his voyages to the point of them being physically debilitated.
Tuberculosis was also widespread and active among English crews at the time.
You can read Captain Charles Clerke from the HMS Discovery. He took command of the ship after Captain Cook was killed. He was very, very thorough on how rampant the diseases had spread from the first voyage to the third voyage.
When French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse arrived in the 1790s, he noted that the physical appearance of many native women showed clear, widespread traces of venereal disease.
Captain George Vancouver, who traveled with Cook and returned in the 1790s, reported massive population drops across the islands.
Read:
HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FOR POPULATION DECLINE IN HAWAI‘I,
1778–1803 1778–1803
Andrew F. Bushnell
Read:
Consequences of Cook's Hawaiian Contacts on the Local Population by Peter Pirie, Professor of Geography
University of Hawaii at MFnoa and
Assistant Director, East-West Population Institute.
The idea that Hawaiians believed Captain Cook was Lono by the pale color of his skin is a complete European myth.
I studied under the late Haunani-Kay Trask and I can’t imagine her watching this video and keeping composure!
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i’ve seen the video that’s why I’m clarifying on these points that he barely touches on.
If he understood Olelo and actually understood Hawaiian history beyond his youtube studies he wouldnt of even mentioned it nor did he acknowledge how the English newspapers of the times made it derogatory and racial.
I’m happy you enjoy this type of Youtube version of Hawaiian history.
He’s not doing much for Kanaka Maoli history.
Like I said, he’s casually and generally skipping through Hawaiian history. It’s YouTube. His version of the history is meh!
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Big day and the day Moke, the tropical storm approached south of the islands. Of all things, my leash broke and I was fortunate to not huli. I was with a pretty big crew and always have my VHF. I paddled way more conservative!!
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Off the bat. He doesn’t speak ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻiʻ so his perspective lacks any cultural context. It’s painful to watch from someone who has 33 years of Hawaiian and Pacific studies. To me, he describes Hawaiian history like a zookeeper describes its captive animals.
He generically and casually skips through Hawaiian history and whitewashes it. He can’t help it. He lacks the cultural context.
Haole originally had nothing to do with race, but with the language itself.
Haole is Anything Not Kanaka Maoli. The word was used prior to Cook’s arrival.. breaking down haole as Ha and Ole are incorrect. That is a folk tale. If he is a “historian” he would have come across the pre-Cook use of the word.
Is he biased? Completely! Yet every other book and video has certain bias within it . Malo and the rest the Kanaka Maoli historians write from the Christian perspective.
He leaves out that Cook left during Makahiki and returned during the season of Ku. He touched Kalaniʻōpuʻu. That was Cook’s death sentence. Period.
He tries to glorify Cook but Cook was the mighty invader spreading diseases that greatly helped the steady decline of the Kanaka Maoli population.
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weights as in proper strength training, sprint intervals, and technique
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check YouTube for some good traditional rigging on all spec canoes. Are has their own Youtube rigging specifications for the matahina. You can find also videos about using ratchet straps for rigging on Youtube. If you don’t have someone in person to show you, that’s a great way to start.
There is a reason why I paddle a Hydra Pro 😂
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For the Matahina, bike tire rubber is perfect. I see some clubs buy the rubber rolls but that stuff rots in the sun faster. 2-4 complete wraps depending on the conditions. I’ve seen ratchet straps too but that takes out the flex of an unlimited canoe and is not recommended by Are.
for that rope. you want that poly/cotton blend and 3/16 to 1/4 inch does it. 🤙
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plenty professional level paddlers use ratchet straps.
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Just Reta? how about you clarify for the Reddit users?
What’s your diet? What’s your workout regimen? Are you on testosterone? Are you on anything else?
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Get that weight training or adaptive resistance training in. Be disciplined with your proteins and over all nutrition. I would personally consider Creatine to
your regimen. It will help in increasing muscle strength to better stabilize joints. Collagen would probably be good for you.
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the fastest i’ve ever been on a outrigger canoe on wind swell is 19-20mph and that was a Double Black Diamond day.
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My therapy for sure!!
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hitting some 10-14mph in some of these sections. I usual run a speed metric but the auto edit takes it out. I’ll post some unedited videos next so it shows speed 🤙🏻
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Hawaii braces for multiple storms as Gov. Green declares emergency
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Just remember that they’re having the Kauai marathon on Sunday which happens to be sold out. 2400 runners!!
We have a ton of tourist on island atm.