What became the standard canoe?
With the realization that canoe design had such a huge impact on results, during 1978 the HCRA (Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association) drew up a blueprint for canoe design specifications which outlined a series of maximums and minimums in regards to weights and measurements. Canoe designers therefore became bound to these limitations and set about creating new hybrid canoes which now consisted of both Hawaiian and Tahitian influences. Though a few one off canoes emerged, the standard canoe that was to emerge in 1984 as the new benchmark and canoe for the masses, was the Hawaiian Class Racer or Classic as it is sometimes known, designed by Joe Quigg and instigated by Walter Guild, who became the principal manufacturer. Shortly after the Bradley canoe was to emerge, designed by Sonny Bradley of Hawaii, but first manufactured under license in California but now also manufactured in Hawaii. The Force 5, a Walter Guild, Brent Bixler designed canoe, first manufactured in 1995, combines some of t
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