One Paddle One Sun
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After pausing for a few seconds to confirm ignition, the twin engines began to gradually accelerate from a rumble to a roar. Secure in the wall of darkness beyond the hotel lit sea, the skipper gave the boat full throttle, a noise which could easily be heard in the quiet Kaanapali night, but not seen.
In less than five minutes the Radon was back at the strobe lit buoy. The swimmer cut the buoy from the line and placed it on board. As the powerboat motored slowly alongside the parasail boats, he deposited packages consisting of three sticks of dynamite with lit ten minute fuses in each.
When the last of the four packages was in place, the swimmer spoke the only word of the night. He simply said "Go", and go they did.
Skipping across the placid ocean and into the Kolohi Channel at forty-five knots, the sound of the explosions could barely be heard above the engine noise.
The light show however, more than compensated for the inability to hear. In rapid succession the parasail boats exploded laterally in 360 degree arcs while simultaneously launching brilliant orange fireballs vertically several hundred feet in the air. The extreme light lasted a few seconds, and then totally disappeared into darkness.
Time seemed to stand still as the skipper and saboteur waited for something similar to occur on the barge. Just when it appeared that all had gone wrong, a bright flash of light split the night sky some six miles distant.
The skipper throttled the Radon down to listen as one by one the jet skis exploded making a far off sound like popping popcorn and looking very much like the Fourth of July. While the boat resumed speed for Molokai, the good citizens and guests from Waihikuli to Black Rock got an early morning wake up call in the form of a floating firestorm brighter than the sun.
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About the Book
Literally millions of tourists
from the four corners of the Earth have visited the
While vacationing, most have seen outrigger canoes with their six person crews paddling their way through the Pacific. The sport has been seen in the exhibition arena of the Olympics and has truly become internationally popular. The Molokai Channel Race boasts representatives from the world over and is televised each year.
One Paddle, One Sun is a book set in 1988 on the
The characters are either outrigger canoe paddlers or their friends and family.
There is no other book written concerning the subject of Native Hawaiian Outrigger Canoe paddling that is a fictional novel based on fact.
The reader will meet a wide variety of colorful characters that add to the eclectic and often surreal landscape of Lahaina. The entire gamut of human interaction occurs between the book’s covers.
The central character is Yankee Dollar who coaches an extraordinary group of women. Free, Maka, Pua, Sophie, and others actually did make paddling history in the eighties. As One Paddle, One Sun clearly illustrates, obsessive dedication to any endeavor costs more than any one paddler could have ever imagined.
The book also provides a fairly
accurate account of the turmoil caused by the introduction of thrillcraft to
the
One Paddle, One Sun is a no holds barred, occasionally X rated saga
about the lives, loves, and survival of a couple of dozen people in paradise.
It is not for the meek or timid.
About the Author
David and his twin Katie were born in Riverside, California, 1945. He dropped out of High School in 1962 and enlisted in and spent over four years in the Marine Corps. David received his AA from