Pictured at Harbor Cove Beach is the new Ocean Canoe-2 that Hokuloa purchased with the help of Chuy Ortiz from El Pescador Restaurant in Fillmore. The Hokuloa Outrigger Canoe Club of Ventura would like to publicly thank Jesus Ortiz and El Pescador Restaurant in Fillmore for the donation made to the youth paddlers of Hokuloa to help purchase a new training canoe; you are a great supporter of youth sports in Ventura County! In honor of his generosity, and because this is a Polynesian sport, Hokuloa named the new canoe “LAWAI’A” which in Hawaiian means “El Pescador” or the fisherman. A successful fisherman is highly revered in the Hawaiian culture and the Hokuloa youth paddlers named it in a show of appreciation to Jesus and “El Pescador Restaurant.” On September 7, the HOKULOA boys under 19 years old won a race in their division in a six man canoe paddling from Catalina Island to Newport Beach. They paddled a total of 31 miles in 5 hours and 57 seconds.