Starting this year 2010 Poerava will be adding some new toys to the line up.
We are adding five new styles of boards with a mix of old and new methods
of construction. Our website will be updated by the first of April and will be
previewing all of our new boards then.



Shapes almost ready for glassing.





Taping up the stringers for some added detail.



The added detail to stringers.... color.



Color is added.



Up next, glassing..... the freestyle way.



Check back soon for the next update.

 

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Team OPT won the third and last stage of the 2009 Hawaiki Nui Va'a outrigger canoe
race from Tahaa to Bora Bora in the Leeward Islands Friday. In the overall standings,
Team OPT also finished first ahead of Shell va'a.

Defending 4-time champion Shell va'a did not manage to win a fifth straight Hawaiki
Nui outrigger canoe race.

After winning the second leg Thursday between Raiatea and Tahaa, Team OPT did
better than all the other teams in the third and last leg Friday.

This last leg covered a distance of 58 kilometers (36 miles), from Taha'a to Bora
Bora.

The finish line was in front of Bora Bora's famous Matira Beach.

Team OPT set a new record time of 4 hours 7 minutes and 1 second for this leg.

The Shell va'a canoe finished second only 1 minute 50 seconds behind the Team
OPT canoe with a time of 4 hours 8 minutes 51 seconds.

Team OPT B finished third, with a time of 4 hours 12 minutes 15 seconds. Matairea
Hoe and Paddling Connection finished fourth and fifth.

n the overall standings, Team OPT won the Hawaiki Nui Race, beating Shell va'a
which seemed unbeatable to many observers.

Shell's first Hawaiki Nui Race victory was in 2002. It won again in 2005, 2006, 2007
and 2008.

Shell va'a also won a historic fourth straight victory in the Molokai Hoe outrigger
canoe race, Oct. 11 in Hawaii.

Team OPT won Thursday's second leg of the Hawaiki Nui Race, from Raiatea to
Tahaa.

Team OPT crossed the finish line ahead of Shell va'a and Team OPT B. Shell
va'a finished more than 1 minute and 30 seconds after Team OPT.

With only a half-day's rest after Wednesday's 44.5-km (27.7-mile) race from Huahine
to Raiatea, the senior men's canoes did almost an all-out sprint in the 26-km (16-mile)
course Thursday.

The second leg was run inside the lagoon that Raiatea and Taha'a share.

Friday's final third leg will cover 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Taha'a to Bora Bora.

Shell Va'a is still considered by many the big favorite to win the Hawaiki Nui Race
for the fifth straight time.

Shell also won a fourth straight victory in the Molokai Hoe outrigger canoe race,
Oct. 11 in Hawaii.

More than 130 canoes, including three overseas teams, from Hawaii, Brazil and
Germany, signed up for this year's event.

Media members from Italy, the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Germany
are covering the 18th Annual Hawaiki Nui Race in the Leeward Islands that began
on Wednesday and ends on Friday.

The G.I.E. Tahiti Tourisme arranged the international media coverage, paying for the
media members' accommodations and, in cooperation with Air Tahiti, inter-island
flights. Tahiti Tourisme also provided a press boat to follow the three legs of the race -
Huahine-Raiatea, Raiatea-Taha'a and Taha'a-Bora Bora.

Air Tahiti Nui covered a portion of the cost of the international flights for the media
members.

The G.I.E. Tahiti Tourisme announced that the coverage is due to provide the Tahiti
and Her Islands destination with:

--Eight pages in the monthly Italian magazine "Max", which reports on events, voyages
and sports. The coverage includes a complete reportage on the magazine's Internet
Web site, targeting the "100 best places to visit and to see". "Max" prints 192,000
copies monthly for an estimated readership of just over one million readers.
The Hawaiki Nui Race coverage is due to be published next year.

--National Geographic Traveler U.S. will cover the race on its blog with video coverage
of the entire event for a daily audience of 20,000-40,000 blog visitors.

--The Toronto Star, a daily Canadian newspaper, plans several pages devoted to the
Hawaiki Nui Race, with publication due at the end of the year or early next year. The
newspaper's press run is 358,732 copies for 896,830 weekly readers and 503,651
weekend readers.

--The Australian monthly publication "Exhibition" is planning to public two pages on
the race in December or next March, which will have an estimated advertising value
of AU$10,000.

--New Zealand's Sunday Star Times newspaper plans to publish two pages about the
race in its press run of 202,991 copies for 585,000 readers. This will have an estimated
advertising value of NZ$20,000-$25,000.

--The German television network ARD plans to broadcast a six-minute and 45-minute
report on the Hawaiki Nui Race, with rebroadcasts scheduled on Arte, the French-
German cultural TV channel, and 3sat, a public, advertising-free, television network
in Central Europe with programming in German primarily for viewers in Germany,
Austria and Switzerland.

Shell va'a won the first stage of the 2009 Hawaiki Nui Va'a outrigger canoe race from
Huahine to Raiatea in the Leeward Islands Wednesday.

Shell va'a crossed the finish line ahead of EDT and Team OPT.

Furthermore, EDT finished more than three minutes after Shell va'a.

This first stage proves once again that Shell will be the team to beat this year.

The different teams will now face the second stage of the yearly outrigger canoe
race in the Leeward Islands.

That will be held from Raiatea to Taha'a inside the lagoon that both islands share.
The course covers 26 kilometers (16 miles).

The final stage of the three-day, four-island 129-kilometer (80.2-mile) race will be
held Friday from Taha'a to Bora Bora, covering a distance of 58 kilometers
(36 miles).

The finish line is in front of Bora Bora's famous Matira Beach.

More than 130 canoes signed up for this year's event. There also will be three
overseas teams - from Hawaii, Brazil and Germany.

Shell va'a wants to win a fifth straight Hawaiki Nui outrigger canoe race.

Shell's first Hawaiki Nui Race victory was in 2002. It won again in 2005, 2006,
2007 and 2008.

Shell va'a also won a historic fourth straight victory in the Molokai Hoe outrigger
canoe race, Oct. 11 in Hawaii.

                                                               
While there are 134 outrigger canoes due on the starting line for the opening
of the 18th Annual Hawaiki Nui Race in Tahiti's Leeward Islands, much of the
attention will be focused on one canoe - the Shell Va'a Team canoe.

Fresh from its historic fourth straight victory in the Oct. 11 Molokai Hoe
outrigger canoe race in Hawaii, Tahiti's Shell Va'a Team now will seek
an historic fifth straight victory in the Nov. 4-6 Hawaiki Nui Race.

That would also make Shell the only team ever to win the 129-kilometer
(80.2-mile) race six times. The three-day, three-stage, four-island race
begins on Nov. 4 with the Huahine-Raiatea leg, covering 44.5 km
(27.7 miles).

The 134 canoes signed up for this year's event—seven fewer than last year—
include senior men's and women's and junior men's and women's teams.
There also will be three overseas teams—from Hawaii, Brazil and Germany.

The Hawaiki Nui's Nov. 5 second leg will be held in the lagoon shared by the
islands of Raiatea and Taha'a, covering a distance of 26 km (36 miles).

The final and often the most dramatic stage will start from Taha'a on Nov. 6
and return to the ocean for the 58-km (36-mile) leg to Bora Bora and the
finish line in front of the island's famous Matira Beach.

The yearly Hawaiki Nui Race is such a popular event that it attracts huge
crowds of spectators for each leg and as many as 800 spectator boats,
some of them up to six meters (nearly 20 feet) in length. These boats
closely follow each leg.

Last year, then defending three-time champion Shell Va'a won the initial
Huahine-Raiatea leg in the final 10 minutes. Despite broiling 40-degree
Centigrade (104-degree Fahrenheit) weather, the Shell Va'a team sprinted
ahead of the EDT (Electricité de Tahiti) canoe in the last 500 meters to win.

However, while the Shell canoe's first leg winning time in 2007 was slow,
last year's was even slower—3 hours 30 minutes 40 seconds. That was
3 minutes 40 seconds slower than its 2007 time and 14 minutes 33
seconds slower than the record time of 3 hours 16 minutes 7 seconds
for the first leg.

Last year's second leg victory went to the EDT canoe by only 26 seconds.
The EDT Team only took the lead in the final two kilometers from the Bora
Bora Va'a canoe, which led most of the way. Shell was the big loser, finishing
fourth, 1 minute and 31 seconds behind the EDT canoe's winning time of
1 hour 58 minutes 46 seconds.

After finishing second behind Shell in the Huahine-Raiatea opening leg last
year, the second leg victory sent the EDT team into the final leg with a slight
advantage over the Shell Team.

But the Shell Va'a canoe entered the history books in spades the next day
with its fourth straight Hawaiki Nui Race victory and fifth win overall, crossing
the finishing line in front of Matira Beach after 4 hours 12 minutes and 45
seconds of paddling from Taha'a to Bora Bora.

The EDT Team, last year's biggest rival for Shell, finished a disappointing third
on the final leg and had to content themselves with an overall second place for
2008.

Shell's first Hawaiki Nui Race victory was in 2002. It won again in 2005, 2006,
2007 and 2008. The only other team to win five times since the race began in
1992 was the "Piroguiers de Faa'a") (the Faa'a Outrigger Canoe Racers).
The Faa'a team won in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1998.



    

Get ready for this years 2009 Hawaiki Nui Canue Race!

This is the 18th edition and will start November 4th ending on the 6th at Bora Bora. Racers start from
Fuahine and venture over to Raiatea (44.5km). Then they are off to Tahaa (26km). Then from Tahaa
to the outer lagoon of Bora Bora (58km) final destination.

Over 80 teams will be participating this year and the dominating Shell team will be going for another
win. If you miss the race you can still observe the training everyday in Papeetea at lunch time. Locals
are always practicing for the next big Hawaikinui.

                                                                                                                 photo by Tahitipress

Ina Pater of Tahiti was the fourth runner-up in Friday's Miss Tourism Queen Inter-
national 2009, which was won by Ekaterina Grushanina of Russia in the contest
held in Zhengzhou, China.

Vivian Noroha Cia of Brazil was first runner-up. Safia Souare of Guinea was
second runner-up and Shen Yu Jie of China was third runner-up.

Ms. Pater, 21, was among the contest's 20 finalists, who included Celia Bettinger
of France, Natalie Sangster of New Zealand, Aleksandra Malkin of Canada and
Valentane Huang of Singapore.

After further eliminations by the jury, Ms. Pater was among the 14 finalists.

The contest was broadcast by several Asian television networks and watched by
an audience of several thousand viewers.

Ms. Pater telephoned the Miss Polynesia Committee in Tahiti after the contest,
saying she would be staying a week longer in China due to planned meetings
with the media and invitations extended to the winner and her four runners-up.