FAQs

  • Send a message to our coaching staff via our contact form to get info on how to join our next practice!

  • The Hui Wa‘a emphasizes safety by ensuring paddlers can pass a float test. Each canoe carries personal flotation devices and annual practices are held for procedures of righting a canoe that may huli (turn over). Additionally, practice routes follow closely along the shoreline.

  • We launch from Waterway 18 on Lake Union, just NE of Gas Works Park on Northlake Way, adjacent to Dunato’s boat yard. We share our beach with SOCC, so join us on the right hand side of the shed (if you’re looking at it from the road).

  • Rec/Racing:
    Tuesday and Thursday 6-8pm
    Saturday 9am

    Keiki:
    Tuesday and Thursday
    Saturday

    Please arrive at the beach a half hour early to get ready and get placed into crews.

  • Coaches keep an eye on the weather and will cancel practice if conditions are not safe for paddling.
    We can and do paddle in the rain!