outrigger

A custom paint job on an outrigger canoe on the Ka’anapali coast.

This boat was plain and simple, with no sail or outrigger, and, as it moved closer, Razi saw it had some strange lettering etched on the side.

She is also an avid athlete who competed internationally in outrigger canoeing, he said.

For days, he and his outrigger canoe were right there, too, bringing food, water, whatever survivors needed.

He saw the veterans as descendants of the ancient CHamoru warfighters, who had taken on the Spanish conquistadors with slings in hundreds of sail-powered outrigger canoes, circling them at two to three times their speed.