Talk Story Session: The Women of ʻOnipaʻa
Meet ʻOnipaʻa — the first crew of all-female outrigger canoe paddlers to cross the Kaiwi Channel from Molokaʻi to Oʻahu in 1975. For more than three decades, the Kaiwi was considered by Hawaiʻi's men to be too dangerous for women paddlers to attempt... That all changed one Sunday morning when ʻOnipaʻa and Healani Canoe Club […]