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Team OAK Tasmania makes a big splash at local regatta
Team OAK Tasmania made a big splash at the inaugural Outrigger Paddling Regatta held at Montrose Park last weekend, winning the 1000 metre sprint race.
Staff members Craig Wilcox, Omar Venegas, Scott Longo, Dee Khanal & David Johnson looked the part as they paddled it out against eight other teams during the fun event. Team Captain Craig Wilcox said the Team had an ‘absolutely awesome day’ and proved to be one of the strongest social entries on the day – despite never competing in an outrigger canoe race before.
OAK Tasmania inches ahead of the competition.
Outrigger canoe racing is a relatively young sport in Australia. The first club in Australia was formed on the Gold Coast in 1978 which prompted Australia’s first outrigger canoe championships to be held in 1981. The first club in Sydney was formed in 1989, followed by Melbourne in 2003. Hobart’s Outrigger Canoe Club was formed in 2006 and focuses on teamwork, fitness for life and connecting with an ancient cultural practice of the Polynesian People.
First across the line in the 1000 metre sprint.
The Hobart Outrigger Canoe Club may have found five new members as Team OAK Tasmania are already planning to enter the next social paddling event in February 2012.
Images courtesy of Shauna Spurling.
Winners are grinners!
