r "OC" stands for "outrigger canoe." The designation "six" means that it seats six paddlers. The fiberglass canoe is about 40 feet long, with two arms, called iakos, that reach out to an outrigger, ...

If you're having a bad day, consider jumping in a giant canoe with five of your friends and paddling out into the ocean. The ...

We're humming now. The 40-foot sliver of yellow cleaves the water of the Duluth harbor. Six of us paddle in perfect synchrony. A stroke almost every second. "Hut!" cries Diane Kivisto of Superior from ...