Mahalo, Richard .. Mom made it to just 3 days shy of 95, so a long and fulfilling life.
Interesting about Nick's canoes. What we need is a light 4-man, as those patterned after the Hawaiian 6-man are rather heavy. The 21-pound "Ares" that I ordered will be Hawaii-made, even though Kai Wa'a now has them made in China. (Somehow that didn't sit well with me.) There's a bit of a connection, as Kai was married to an old surf partner's daughter for a number of years. He told me the top 20 Molokai finishers were using his Ares model, as it really surfs well.
No Molokai for this old man. In the '90s, I was doing a fair bit of interisland on my Yamaha Waverunner (Maui-Lanai-Molokai), and I'd run over to camp out with the Boyz and photograph the first few miles of their race.
The poor girls just trying to get out to the starting line for their 2012 race:
1950s shot of Rabbit @ Makaha
