Ngakau Toa Vaka

Very fun Team bonding and birthday celebration for Maritime Cook Islands 🥳

Meitaki Maritime Cook Islands 💙

We had some members itching to get back out on the water well before the season starts!

A pleasure also to host our ocean family from Horouta Waka club down in Gisborne, we look forward to being with you on the ocean again soon. Kia Orana and Meitaki Ma’ata for the koha towards our club. We appreciate it very much 💙

End of year Prizegiving to acknowledge our paddlers’ hard work this year 🙌🏾

First of all we want to thank the following people/businesses that supported us by sponsoring awards for our paddlers this year: The Manea Spa, Tamarind House Raro, Waterline Restaurant, Rarotonga Bakery, Maire Nui Gardens, Pippilou's Mobile Beauty & Massage Rarotonga, Oasis Hydroponics and Josephine Bain 💙 because of your generosity, we were able to award vouchers to our very deserving paddlers for the their hard work this year. Our recipients for the following awards were:

Juniors:
U14 Girls Top paddler: Marau Totini
U14 Gilrs Rising Star ⭐️: Joanna Caffery

U14 Boys Top paddler: Vivian Kora
U14 Boys Rising Star ⭐️: Halem Hand

U16 Girls Top paddler: Ruby Newport
U16 Girls Rising Star ⭐️: Addison Doel

U16 Boys Top paddler: Joseph Tangaroa
U16 Boys Rising Star ⭐️: Lionel Charlie

Coaches award boys: Rauparaha Morgan Dolman
Coaches award girls: Isabelle Dun

U19 girls top paddler: Maddy Spurle-Lowe
U19 girls Rising Star ⭐️: Taira Tangaroa
U19 girls coaches award: Pourie Kaina

Open women
Top paddler: Talissa Koteka
Rising Star ⭐️: Leilani Sadaraka
Coaches award: Jamie Crawford

Master women
Top paddler: Raewyn Morgan
Rising Star ⭐️: Jitka Markova
Coaches award: Frances Akaruru

Open Men
Top paddler: Pomare Pittman
Rising Star ⭐️: Benjamin Raela
Coaches award: Damien Heather

Master Men
Top paddler: Joe HS
Rising Star ⭐️: Cameron Barnett
Coaches award: PapatandSofie Tangaroa

Coach of the year awards go to all our coaches for all the divisions above for their hard work and commitment to training our paddlers this year, Vaea Melvin, Linda Dun, Jakub Postrzygacz, Vina Manuel, Tupuna Amo, Tangata Fletcher Melvin.

And last but not least, our presidents award was awarded to our club treasurer Sheeny Teariki and club secretary Pip Hansen for their hard work behind the scenes making sure everything from working bees to club gatherings to making sure everyone is safe, well equipped and prepared to do what we love best - we are so grateful for you both and thank you for all the hard work you both do while training hard and competing in our top women’s team 💙

Meitaki atupaka everyone for a great year this year, your loyalty and commitment doesn’t go unnoticed and I look forward to being on the water with you all again next year - Ioana 💙

Welcome back 😜 awesome mash up team - can’t wait to see all the content you guys will be pushing out over the next two weeks for VAKA EIVA, cheeeeheee 🤙🏽💙

Welcome Back🤠 #vakaeiva #cookislands

KIAORANA! This weekend kicks off the start of our international Vaka Eiva Outrigger Canoe Competition.
Our club is fundraising towards the purchase of a new canoe so we will be selling club merchandise and other items during the event.

We would LOVE to see guests to our beautiful island wearing some of our club gears and coming along to check out the action on the water!

If you would like to support our clubs fundraising efforts ( and get yourself some sweet souvenirs to take home!), please pop us a message or email [email protected] and we may even be able to deliver to your accomodation!

OR come along to our stall at the boatshed next to Trader Jacks from Monday on! We would love to see you!

A throwback alright 🙌🏾💙

Trawling way back through the archives, the first annual Round Raro, one year before Vaka Eiva kicked off #2003

Club member(s) spotlight ✨

Tahiti Isaaka - 3 year service certificate and the Barry Hill “Most Valuable Brigade member” award for 2025
Tangata Fletcher Melvin - 2 year silver bar for a total service of 12 years
Johnny Beasley - 2 year silver bar for a total service of 9 years

Congratulations to all the recipients last night Puaikura Volunteer Fire Brigade and thank you for your continued service to our community.

We had two awards ceremonies last night, the national Cook Islands Canoeing Association awards and the PVFB awards. We are very proud of all our members doing well on and off the water and serving our Cook Islands community 💙