David Wong:
CLASS OF 1976
La Habra High SchoolClass of 1976
La habra, CA
David's Story
It asks for my story. Lets see. Time seems like it has passed so quickly.
Since leaving high school I have been married (11yr) and divorced (20++yr). I started body surfing and paddling surf skis, I was part a body surfing team for a while. I got into back country hiking, back packing and mountaineering. I climbed several peaks in the high sierras until I fell off a glacier face and decide to steer a different course. I went back to the ocean, I got involved in racing outrigger canoes both in California and Hawaii. After a bunch of years doing that I met a hardy and crazy group of paddlers in Hawaii that were taking a more traditional tack on the sport of outrigger canoes. They fitted th...Expand for more
e canoes with sails and raced them across the whole island chain every year. I joined a crew from Maui and raced with them for 10 years. II built my own sailing outrigger here in So Cal and started a California Sailing Canoe Association. Some of the channel crossing in Hawaii would last up to 12 hours, that's a lot of paddling. Then something happened to finally slow me down, about 7 years ago I hurt my back, It's slowly getting better but I can't sit in a canoe anymore. I so miss that. Now I've settled into mostly working as an engineer and driving safety boats when I'm needed at different paddling events. Anything to get back on the ocean.
More to come, I'm still trying to figure it out.
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