One Paddle One Sun

Literally millions of tourists from the four corners of the Earth have visited the Hawaiian Islands.

While vacationing, most have seen outrigger canoes with their six person crews paddling their way through the Pacific. The sport has been seen in the exhibition arena of the Olympics and has truly become internationally popular. The Molokai Channel Race boasts representatives from the world over and is televised each year.

One Paddle, One Sun is a book set in 1988 on the Island of Maui.

The characters are either outrigger canoe paddlers or their friends and family.

There is no other book written concerning the subject of Native Hawaiian Outrigger Canoe paddling that is a fictional novel based on fact.

The reader will meet a wide variety of colorful characters that add to the eclectic and often surreal landscape of Lahaina. The entire gamut of human interaction occurs between the book’s covers.

The central character is Yankee Dollar who coaches an extraordinary group of women. Free, Maka, Pua, Sophie, and others actually did make paddling history in the eighties. As One Paddle, One Sun clearly illustrates, obsessive dedication to any endeavor costs more than any one paddler could have ever imagined.

The book also provides a fairly accurate account of the turmoil caused by the introduction of thrillcraft to the Islands. Much of the text actually happened as written and is significant because a first of its kind law was eventually passed protecting the sanctity and privacy of the Humpback Whales.

One Paddle, One Sun is a no holds barred, occasionally X rated saga about the lives, loves, and survival of a couple of dozen people in paradise. It is not for the meek or timid.