For each race you want to do, your crew must complete the weekly mileage. In general, club practices go about this far per week:
Weekday practices (Tues, Thurs): OC6 goes 6 miles
Saturday/Sunday practices: OC6 goes 7-10 miles until July. August-September OC6 goes 15 miles.
Club OC1 can be loaned DURING club practices or anytime a coach or board member is available to be nearby. If you do it during practices, please make arrangements with the coach running practice and you MUST BE DONE BEFORE club practice ends.
Havasu Heat (April 5, 2025)
Short course (4-5 miles) : Required Mileage per week: 6, you must complete a v6 tractor pull to set your standing in a crew. Times will be verified by a Speed Coach.
Long Course (10-11 miles) : Required Mileage per week: 12, you must complete a V6 tractor pull to set your standing in a crew and you must be able to do 4 miles in an OC in 45 minutes. If you’re a steersman, you must do 4 miles in 50 minutes. Times will be verified by a Speed Coach. The best 5 V6 tractor pulls in addition to qualifying OC1/V1 plus the best available and qualifying steersman will make a crew.
Race Fee due: $40 due 3/22/2025
SCORA Races
Short courses (5-6 miles in the bay) : Required Mileage per week: 8 miles, you must complete a V6 tractor to set your standing in a crew. Times will be verified by a Speed Coach.
Long Course (11-13 miles open water) : Required Mileage per week: 15 miles for long course paddlers
OC1 time trial: 4.0 miles 45 minutes for long course, steersmen will do a V1 time trial, 4.0 miles in 50 minutes. Times will be verified by a Speed Coach.
OC6 tractor pulls: 250m for short course. Top 5 + best available steers make the first non-adaptive crew, Top 3 adaptives make the first adaptive crew.
Once Long course crews are established, the crews need to do a time trial and finish 9 miles in 90 minutes or less or the crew becomes a short course crew. Times will be verified by a Speed Coach.
Crystal Pier Race Fee due: $35 due April 19, 2025
Long Beach Race Fee due: $35 due April 26, 2025
Kahanamoku Klassic Race Fee due: $35 due May 24, 2025
Iron Champs Race Fee due: $35 due June 14, 2025
Queen Lili’uokalani Canoe Race
Course: 18 miles open water
Alenuihaha Crossing: Alenuihaha Channel is a channel that separates the islands of Hawaii and Maui in the state of Hawaii. It is an incredibly difficult 60 mile crossing in the 2nd most dangerous channel in the world that requires 2 full crews to participate. The entire journey will starts at 3a and could last anywhere from 8 to 15 hours. The following requirements are still pending but they will roughly be as show below.
Required Mileage per week: 18 miles (We will practice moving changes every Sunday practice)
OC1: 6 mile time trial. You must complete 6 miles in 1:10 hour (can be done anytime but you must submit your tracking information)
V1: 6 mile time trial. You must complete 4.5 miles (can be done anytime but you must submit your tracking information)
OC6: You must steer an OC6 for 4.5 miles by yourself (we will have an experienced steers in seat 5 to help in case of emergencies)
Additional requirements:
- Practices will start no earlier than 9am to adjust to the heat.
- You MUST learn how to steer.
- You MUST learn how to paddle with some sort of hydration system.
- Even though we don’t do moving changes during this crossing, if you cannot do a MOVING change by yourself, you will NOT qualify for the crossing.
*Initial Deposit due: $50 due July 19, 2025
*Final Deposit due: $TBD due August 9, 2025
*non-refundable
Molokai (October 15, 2025)
Course (42 miles open water)
Required Mileage per week: 18 miles in July, 24 miles in August/September (2 moving changes apply like 9 man races above. If you cannot do a moving change by yourself, you will NOT qualify)
OC1: 6 mile time trial starting in July. You must complete 6 miles in 1:07 hour for July, 1:06 hour in August, 1:05 in September.
V1: 4.5 mile time trial. You must complete 4.5 miles in 1:15 (can be done anytime but you must submit your tracking information)
OC6: You must steer an OC6 for 3 miles by yourself (we will have an experienced steers in seat 5 to help in case of emergencies)
Additional requirements:
- physical test set by men’s coach
- You MUST do 2 change races prior to these races
- You must learn how to steer even if you don’t steer during a race.
- If you cannot do a MOVING change by yourself, you will NOT qualify.
*Molokai deposit due: $200 due May 2025
*Molokai deposit due: $200 due June 2035
*Molokai balance due: July 2025 (roughly $200+)
*non-refundable