OABI

The most soulful Stand up Paddleboard Race, paddlerama and beach party featured on the shores of Bel Just ready, set, go. Start and finish at Belle Isle Beach.

OABI - prounounced ō-‘äb-ē

OABI, the acronym for Once Around Belle Isle, is a 7-mile paddle race around Belle Isle in the international waters of
Windsor, Onatrio and Detroit, MI. What started as an underground race in 2012 with 25 Detroit/Windsor paddlers has turned into a Midwest paddle destination and the premier beach party in Detroit. With an expanded program in 2014, OABI appealed to not on

06/25/2019

For our families and yours OABI has become one of the highlights of the summer in Detroit. For the past 7 years we were thrilled to carry the awesome responsibility of producing an event that lived up to such great expectations. However, market forces coupled with venue limitations and other factors led us to this very difficult decision. 

Please accept our apology regarding the confusion of the previously posted Save the Date. We were excited to find a buyer for the event, someone who we thought would carry on the event and meet attendee expectations. Upon their request we put out a save the date as the paper work was being completed, however, they backed out of the sale leaving us in this position. We only released a save the date because of the promise the event would be produced that day.

We wanted to make you aware of this as soon as we possibly could. Thank you for all your support and passion for OABI. Farewell for now.