Hawaii Magazine
The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Paddle the Kaiwi Channel
The determined all-female paddling crews who were first to dare the Molokai to Oahu crossing, a race once restricted to men.
Sep 12, 2017
Considered the pinnacle of long-distance Hawaiian outrigger canoe racing, the Kaiwi Channel is a grueling 41-mile stretch of open ocean separating the Hawaiian Islands of Molokai and Oahu. In Hawaiian,
ka iwi suitably means “the bone” it takes every muscle and fiber of the human body to complete, a reminder that, when one’s physicality is stripped away and tested, our ka iwi is truly all we are.
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The founding director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had heard of Tommy Connor’s prowess on the baseball field. A star player in Washington, D.C., in the 1920s, Dad had graduated from high school at 15, put himself through college by 17, and went on to play Triple-A 3rd base for the old Boston Braves. When after three years the dream of playing in the Majors appeared stalled, he enrolled in law school, which is where Mr. Hoover tracked him down.
Though hardly athletic, the head of law enforcement was fiercely competitive (not to mention vindictive) and with the U.S. government starting an interdepartmental baseball league that season, the little man desperately wanted to win the league championship – even if he had to drag the future captain of the FBI team (and the bureau’s basketball team) out of law school!