Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Outrigger canoes filled with people, plants, and animals traveled across the Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands a very long time ago.

Canoe surfing, particularly in an outrigger, is an ancient Polynesian tradition. The plastic, cookie-cutter kayaks you find at Costco and lining the beach at Sandals Resorts, those are not in ...

Fringe, novelty, yet steeped in tradition. These might be a few ways to describe the current world of outrigger canoe surfing. But it wasn’t always this way. Riding waves in canoes is an ancient ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Surfers pack the waters around Huntington Beach Pier almost everyday, but now, right alongside them, the city has introduced outrigger canoe surfing. "A lot of ...

Outrigger canoe surfing is an ancient Hawaiian tradition. And still to this day, there are many who carry on that historic practice, hopping into a canoe, and catching waves. But sometimes, things don ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Rocky McKinnon tied red, white and blue ribbons to his four-man outrigger canoe as he prepared to take part in the 114th Huntington Beach Fourth of July Parade. This ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A crew of Hawaii watermen is back home after the paddling experience of a lifetime. The southern coast of Portugal served as the picturesque setting for the first-ever ...

Canoe surfing, particularly aboard the outrigger style of boats, is one of the oldest forms of riding waves. It dates back to the ancient Polynesians, through the beachboy era in Honolulu, and ...

On a blustery Friday morning before dozens of supporters and curious onlookers, Rocky McKinnon and his watermen buddies set off in Huntington Beach’s first outrigger surf canoe program. With a bit of ...