Malia (Hawaiian canoe)

Malia (Hawaiian canoe) - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Mālia is a Hawaiian-style wooden racing canoe crafted by James Takeo Yamasaki. The canoe was hewn out of blonde koa wood in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, in 1933. Its wooden hull provided the founding model for all subsequent outrigger canoeing hulls, including those later molded from fiberglass. Hawaiian racing canoeist Tommy Holmes observed that Malia "remains a prototype for contemporary racing canoes [and] was among the first canoes built exclusively for the sport."Holmes 1993, p. 125 The canoe was listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places in 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

type: NRHP
date from: 1933

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