August 26th, 2006
Hawaii LEGENDARY SURFERS: Duke Kahanamoku
The 116th anniversary of Duke Kahanamoku’s birthday, will celebrate with a surf meet with tandem surfing, a surf polo tournament, an ocean swim and waterman challenge in Waikiki. Athletic events will be sandwiched by historical displays. Aug 26. Lei parade and draping at statue and Great Hawaiian Luau . Duke’s Ho’olaule’a is presented by the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation.
Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku — known to most as Duke or The Duke, and as Paoa to Hawaiian and long time island friends — "emerged as the world’s consummate waterman, its fastest swimmer and foremost surfer, the first truly famous beach boy," wrote biographer Grady Timmons. Duke Kahanamoku is best known to surfers as, "the father of modern surfing. As a sign of Duke’s importance to the sport, one of his early surfboards, with his name across the bow, is preserved in the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.
If you like Surf, join us in Queens beach and learn more about him.