2015 Kapua Blessing 7-28-2015
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2015 Kapua Bessing
Outrigger Canoe Club paddlers gather around the new fiberglass racing canoe Kapua during its blessing. With their backs to the camera Kawika Grant, Tom McTigue, Bobby Puakea and Jen Bossert.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Outrigger paddlers gather around the fiberglass racing canoe Kapua during its blessing.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Bobby Puakea blessed the canoe with the help of Ford Lyons and Ollie Hope.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Bobby Puakea blessed the Kapua during a traditional Hawaiian ceremony.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Bobby Puakea conducts the Hawaii blessing for the Kapua with the help of Ford Lyons and Ollie Hope.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Ollie Hope and Ford Lyons hold the bowl containing water for the blessing of the Kapua.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Bobby Puakea prays for the safety of the canoe and all the paddlers who will be racing in it.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Outrigger members hold hands as they gather around the new fiberglass racing canoe Kapua as Bobby Puakea blesses it.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Kapua is the name of the fresh water stream which formerly entered the ocean at the site of the present OCC. It is also the name of the channel originally carved through the reef by Kapua Stream's freshwater outflow which gives OCC its access to the sea. This is the second canoe with this name.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Kapua blessing ceremony.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Kapua blessing ceremony.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Kapua blessing ceremony.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Kapua blessing ceremony.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Kapua blessing ceremony.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Kapua blessing ceremony.
2015 Kapua Bessing
Kapua blessing ceremony.