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Early start
Monday 21 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Vaka Eiva racing starts at 7 oclock this morning with masters men and senior masters men taking to the water for the 12km V6 iron races. Masters women and senior masters women paddlers will start their V6 12km race at 9am followed by the masters and open mixed crews race at 11am. The fiercely contested […]
Arorangi holds Tupapa to a 1-all draw
Monday 21 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Arorangi managed to hold current competition leaders Tupapa Maraerenga to a 1-all draw in the Lotto Premier Mens match played at the weekend at Victoria Park. In the first half of the match, although Tupapa were missing seven of their key players who are currently on international duties, Tupapa showed dominance on the field. Early […]
Buzzing from elite training
Monday 21 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Local cricketers Toara Teinaki and Hori Miller are back on the rock more cricket wise after taking part in the recent ICC Elite Training Camp in Brisbane. The pair are keen to share with club players their development and the new skills and techniques they learned while on the six-day training camp with some of […]
Turama and Sunshine Coast fight it out
Monday 21 November 2011 | Published in Regional
While under 19 paddlers joined their senior counterparts on the open ocean in the OC1 and V1 division races Mapu Oe Vaka paddlers headed out to Muri for their first day of racing. Before taking to the water, a moving blessing ceremony for the paddlers and their vaka was conducted by staff at the Pacific […]
Canadians find Papaaroa hospitality wonderful
Saturday 19 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Students at Papaaroa College have welcomed their adoptive paddling pals from Canada with a feast and cultural show this week. The Canadian paddling team Jericho adopted Papaaroa College during their Vaka Eiva stay as part of the festivals adopt-a-school programme. On Thursday the school and the paddlers exchanged gifts and goodwill during their first meeting. […]
Casual triathlon today
Saturday 19 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Twelve hardy athletes took on the first duathlon course of the new triathlon season on Thursday and today athletes will compete in the first triathlon at Tikioki. Vanessa Palmer lead the way in Thursdays duathlon to complete the 2km run, 8km bike and final 1km run in 29.06. Jennie George was hot on her heels […]
Arorangis big chance
Saturday 19 November 2011 | Published in Regional
In the Lotto premier mens football competition, todays featured game will see Tupapa host Arorangi at Victoria Park kicking off at 4pm. There will be no shortage of football action at Victoria Park as the top side Tupapa head into this match against Arorangi without seven of their key players who are away representing the […]
Dry-land training for young sailors
Saturday 19 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Eager junior sailors donned their safety jackets on Thursday afternoon even though they couldnt get out on the water due to there being no safety boats at Muri lagoon that afternoon. The safety boat was out with another bunch of sailors who took their lessons beyond the reef for a more intense sailing session. But […]
Times to beat
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Women V6 Pacific Paddle Round Raro Relay Race 36km 2010 1st HI Big Island Girls 3:08:05, 2nd NZ Paddle NZ 3:08:12, 3rd NZ Makana Alii 3:11:33 2009 1st HI Big Islands Girls 3:07:32, 2nd NZ Waitakere Oiwi 3:11:03, 3rd NZ Manawa Kaha 3:13:35 2008 1st Th RuaHine Tahiti 2:51:54 (course record), 2nd NZ Aotearoa Oiwi […]
Carvers and engravers make trophies
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Island Craft is churning out more than 800 pearl-shell pendants and engraved trophies for this years Vaka Eiva festival. The pendant design is a bit different this year upward-facing triangles for women competitors and downward-facing for men. Director and womens national squad coach Fletcher Melvin, whose company is making the trophies, says that in past […]
Aussies going for gold
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Australia is bringing its best this year. Joining the Crown Beach Kings are the Crown Beach Belles and like their male counterparts, they plan to raise the bar. Comprising the Crown Beach Kings are some of Australias best paddlers Todd Cohen, Travis Grant and Greg Long. The father-son duo Gold Coast chief lifeguard Chris Maynard […]
TKV2 and Ruks top scorers
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Volleyball teams TKV2 and Ruks maintain their top of the table positions after strong wins at Wednesday nights fifth round of the BCI social mixed volleyball competition. TKV2 faced an amped up Aremango Sharks team who after registering their first win last week were on the hunt for their second. But try as they might […]
Horouta bears gifts from Gisborne
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Paddlers from Horouta Waka Ama in Gisborne, New Zealand will, arrive for the Vaka Eiva festival laden with equipment for a local school. Vaka Eiva has been referred to as the most fun event on the paddling planet, attracting 900 international paddlers for the week-long festival, said Horouta manager Raewyn Chaffey. This year festival organisers […]
Crafts and island kai at trade days
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Crafts and cooks from the southern islands will be out to tempt paddlers with their goods and foods this coming week in Rarotonga. Special trade days organised to coincide with Vaka Eiva will focus on the pa enua, with people from Mauke, Mitiaro, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Atiu set to send over their products for the […]
Secondary schools event squad named
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Four teenagers have been named to represent the country at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Athletics Championships in Wellington on December 10 and 11. The team was selected after months of trials and training at the BCI Stadium to represent the country at the athletics meet an event Athletics Cook Islands has attended since the […]
Paddle pendants change each year
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
The iconic paddle pendant is becoming so popular that each year ahead of Vaka Eiva, local jewellers get requests from overseas paddlers for updated versions of it. Originally Moana Gems planned to run its paddle pendant promotion for five years only, but manager Jacqueline Tuara says the paddles are so popular shes reconsidering. The first […]
TUROU! ORO MAI! AERE MAI!
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
A well-known painting from the 1830s of Pa Te Pou Ariki, chief of the Vaka Takitumu of Rarotonga, is a favourite of mine one of the reasons being, that he holds his weapon (a spear) in one hand and a fan in the other. The significance of which is, if he extended his weapon to […]
Orphans unite
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
The United Nations crew has never trained together they havent even met. Theyve been matched up by event organiser Victoria Dearlove, who joked she felt like a dating agency coordinating the transcontinental crew. The crew comprises three Canadians, two paddlers from Samoa and two Kiwis. They were orphaned by their home crews, paddler Mike Sullivan […]
Welcome!
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
Kia orana and welcome to all the paddlers and supporters who have arrived on Rarotonga. The Vaka Eiva festival is now into its 8th year and we have seen it evolve from its ambitious beginnings in 2004 with 200 paddlers to over 800 last year. One thing that hasnt changed has been the high level […]
Nappys back with Anuenue aloha
Friday 18 November 2011 | Published in Regional
This years sole Hawaii crew is proof that age is just a state of mind. Four of the nine paddlers in the Anuenue crew are over 70 and the youngest member is 62 but theyve got the experience and the know-how for a good shot at the top spot in the senior masters division. Joseph […]
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