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North Side Clubs
Lae'ula O Kai Canoe Club is located at Kanaha Beach behind the airport. Lae'ula is a medium sized, well run club known for its dedication to Hawaiian culture, excellent coaching and its top quality crews. Head coach is
. If you are an athlete and want intense coaching to become your best, this is the club for you. Be prepared to work really hard. They have an active and fun off-season 6-man and 1-man practice schedule. LUOK sent 3 open women crews and 2 men's crews to the channel in 2007, despite being smaller than Hawaiian, Kihei or Kahana. Head coach, Sharon Balidoy works hard to get everyone in a race and exemplifies true Hawaiian love of paddling and the ocean. As one of the top woman paddlers in Hawaii, you will enjoy being in the canoe with her, if you are so lucky.
North Shore Renegades is a year round club which is not a member of MCHCA and does not compete in regatta season although it competes in a few distance races. Karen and Malama Chun are head coaches. The Renegades jokingly refer to themselves as the "Lae'ula O Kai Auxiliary" since many of their members join Lae'ula during race season. The club owns 2 canoes and tries to limit membership so no one is left out. Requirements for membership are to be happy, reliable, strong, willing to sit any seat and learn the Renegade stroke, and able to put love of paddling and love of each other ahead of ego. Contact
Hawaiian Canoe Club is the State Champion, winning out over all the other clubs in Hawaii in most of the last 7 years. It is a huge club geared to winning regatta.. Several Hawaiian women compete in Team Bradley which regularly wins Na Wahine O Ke Kai (Moloka'i channel race) Hawaiian is at Kahului Harbor with blue canoes. For the huge number of paddlers they have, their distance program is small. Because Hawaiian is so big, you have to be good to race officially. There are usually many more paddlers than race slots - especially since Hawaiian's goal is to qualify as many crews as possible for State Race. That means often a strong paddler will race twice before a weak paddler is used. Dues are high and much fundraising is expected of members.
East Side Club
Hana Canoe Club is a small club which paddles out of Hana Bay. If you live in Hana, come on down and join up! Their kids program is active in regatta and they are looking for more adults to race.
West Side Clubs
Kahana Canoe Club, based out of Honokao'o Beach Park (Canoe Beach), is a big club with an awesome program - especially for novices. Good coaching and good spirit are responsible for Kahana's rise in the race results. This is a club of mostly younger (20's) people and has evening and morning practices. The morning practices are later than other clubs and good for those working evening shift. Contact Maria Linz (280-5761) for more info. Look for the green canoes and expect to train hard.
Lahaina Canoe Club is based at Canoe Beach (between Lahaina and Ka'anapali). It is a very small club. In 2006 they entered only about 2 crews per regatta. Look for the orange canoes. Contact Vicki at 669-0581.
Napili Canoe Club is another small club based at Honokao'o Beach Park (Canoe Beach) with black and yellow canoes. Contact Greg Heneghan (276-9365) or Dani Haney (281-6903).
South Side Clubs
Wailea Canoe Club Head coach is Kapena Whitford. Wailea paddles all year out of Kalama Park.
Kihei Canoe Club is a large club. Their head coach, Rob Phillips, was extremely popular with the paddlers in 2008.
Maui Canoe Club is the visitor-paddling/recreational group formerly with Kihei Canoe Club. They've started their own club but indicate that they do not intend to compete or become part of MCHCA.