The Outrigger 17u team is set to compete up a division and hopes to carry on the legacy set by the teams before them.

"To go as far as the reefs to get the coral to be burnt to make lime they needed big canoes. Outrigger canoes," she says. The lime was mixed with sand and gravel to create the 30cm-thick walls.

Tamara Thomsen / Wisconsin Historical Society Tamara Thomsen was 24 feet underwater when she spotted it: the decaying end of a dugout canoe, a great white oak carved some 1,200 years ago.

There was a good turnout by paddlers from as far as Hobart at the Inland and Melbourne Outrigger Canoe Club Regatta. Photos: Supplied. Echuca-Moama’s Inland Outrigger Canoe Club organised and ...

There was a good turnout by paddlers from as far as Hobart at the Inland and Melbourne Outrigger Canoe Club Regatta. Photos: Supplied. Echuca-Moama’s Inland Outrigger Canoe Club organised and ...