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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!
Sun May 18 - Sea Life Park to Kailua: across Waimanalo Bay to the Mokulua Islands then on to Kailua Boat Ramp
Tues April 15 -A mix of slides and video by various Club Leaders on special events such as Surf Aloha and the next Windbag Reggatta
Until we find a new permanent home, the meeting place will move each month, sorry about the confusion or inconvenience. May's meeting will be at the Moili'ili Community Center, on S. King St in - gasp! - Moili'ili. For your driving convenience, I have drawn a little map...
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
The Progressive Fishing Tournament for 2008 has already begun. If you want to know how the competion is shaping up this year, check out our new Fishing Pages.
Sun May 11 - Maunalua Bay Surfing Clinic. Pointers and practice with the pros!
Surf Aloha 2008 is right around the corner! Details and entry forms are now available on the SurfAloha site, as well as right here...
May 5, 2008
Please 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.
Please note that there is a new ratings system in effect. Please read it carefully...If you wish to receive my sporadic notices about upcoming events, etc., please send an email to subscribe(at)huiwaa.org with "kayak club" in the subject line (see note on email below) In the body of the email, simply tell me what your real name is, since it isn't always obvious from the email address...
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.
Special events, news & announcements:
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 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 in the next issue of Lifeline
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
Related Links - Resources, rentals, club pages, people we like, nobody we don't...
Quick Links:
National Weather Service
7-day forecast, all islandsPacific Weather Satellite Images
Infrared, etc.Honolulu Weather
Current conditions
June thru Nov.
Legal, Comprehensive
Live surf cams, predictions
NOAA
White Plains
Oahu Tides:
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
May 10
Please Note: There has been a change in the Club dues structure recently - membership in ACA is now required in order to participate in our outdoor activities, and is no longer "free" - as in, "included in your yearly dues." There is a new version of the membership form available here and an explanation of the dues here. Don't panic. It's still a good deal...
Legal Stuff Trip Leader's Release and Waiver Form
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 the button below.
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.(The difference between the two prices on the new form is this: joining the Club at the lower price makes you a member of the Club, but it no longer automatically enrolls you in the American Canoe Association, even though you now MUST be a member of the ACA in order to come on any of our scheduled paddles - or pay a $10 per-person "special coverage" fee at each event. Obviously, this could get pricey real quickly. For $30 per year (in addition to a lowered $16 Club fee), you can become an "active" member of ACA, which extends their insurance to cover not only your Club activities, but also your "other" (non-Club) paddling and outdoor activities - plus you get a subscription to their monthly Paddler magazine). We have included the non-ACA-membership option on the form simply to let you feel good about making the right decision...
Read this for a breakdown of what the fees are and where they go.
The entire contents of this Website, including text, photographs and other graphics, are copyrighted 2007 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 the other Hui addresses:
the addy for the e-newsletter is subscribe@huiwaa.nospam.org and 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 tibbetts@hawaii.nospam.rr.com (same procedure as above)
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