Last Saturday morning, the OC6 race development crew went for a long paddle - 17km long. We are preparing for the Jericho Iron race this coming Saturday. We paddled hard, doing about four race pieces. We were paddling back to the dock when Norm, the coach, instructed all the boats to turn back towards Kits beach to do a huli drill. A huli is when the outrigger canoe capsizes and a huli drill is when we deliberately huli the canoe and practice getting back into the boat. Everybody in the boat has a job to do to get the boat back upright and going again as fast as possible. But after paddling 17km and with the water being cold, we didn’t really do the drill very fast. But we did it and we’re just happy that it’s over and done with. Hopefully, there will be no huli this Saturday during the race....
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