Takapuna Beach Cup 2026 🌊
So proud of our crews and the way they represented throughout the weekend 🙌🏽
42km changeovers
🥇 Pineula Open Men
🥈 Pineula Master Men
🥉 Tavake Open Women
🔥 Pineula Black Flag 4man
21km Iron
🥈 Hawaiki J19 Women - racing Open Women
10km Iron
🥈 Boombullets J16 Men
🥈 Mahina J16 Women
🔥 Poe Tiare
And a few of our paddlers racing again in Sunday’s relay 💪🏽
Huge thank you to our sponsor Graeme @stonefish_oceanlife for keeping our club kitted in the best uniforms, and for looking after us throughout the weekend! 🙏🏽🧡💙
Thank you to everyone behind the scenes who makes races like this possible 🙌🏽🔥
Team Pineula Open Men doing what they love & having fun while competing in the Round Raro Relay Race at Vaka Eiva 2025! 🔥🌊
Meitaki Maata to @stonefish_oceanlife for all that you do for the boys and our club, to papa for being #1 support boat driver & for transporting us safely around the island, to our families & friends for the time and effort you put into supporting us all, & lastly to the race organisers & everyone behind the scenes for such an amazing event! 🙌🏽🧡
AROCA Regionals 2025 🔥
Welcome to all our new paddlers, those who have just joined us, and those from across the seas - this event involves V1 500m and 250m sprint races. Every year paddlers from all across Auckland compete at the AROCA (Auckland Regional Outrigger Canoe Association) Regionals to qualify for the Waka Ama Sprint Nationals held annually in January at Lake Karapiro 🙌
We had an outstanding number of registrations from our club this year (87) with paddlers in the intermediate, j16, j19, u23, open, master, senior master, and golden master categories - so massive shout out to all who raced, progressed, and made podium!! 🥇🥈🥉 And a huge congratulations to all who qualified and made it through to nationals!!! 🔥🤩
THANK YOU to our sponsors, families, friends, coaches, managers, and everyone who follows and cheers us on, for all your support and for sharing this journey with us! 🧡
Molokai Hoe 2025 🌊
Aloha everyone!! 🤙🏽
Our open men - Team Pineula - competed in the 2025 Molokai Hoe Championships and placed 10th overall!! 🙌🏽 Such an amazing achievement from these 9 paddlers: Kingi Gilbert, Simon Wolfgram, Paora Monk, Teremoana Tere, Jb Ioaba, Manutea Millon, Jake Suitauloa from Manukau OCC, Reuben Dearlove from the Cook Islands, & Austin Talley from Maui! Congratulations to these men - for some it was their first time crossing the Kaiwi Channel 🔥
This wouldn’t have been possible without our support crew and everyone behind the scenes, so a huge acknowledgement and thank you to everyone who supported and sponsored our guys throughout their Hawaii journey!! 🧡🤙🏽
🌊 Help Team Pineula Get to Hawai’i! 🌺
We’re heading to compete in the legendary Moloka’i Hoe 2025 — and we need your support!
🔥 To fundraise, we’re releasing a limited-edition Pineula Long Sleeve Training Tee.
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Pineula represent 🖤🤍
Over the weekend, the NZ Waka Ama contingent had their combined camp at the @akaranamarinesports centre! It was great to see everyone come together for a full on weekend of training and it was a proud moment to witness everyone receive their uniform 🔥
Here are our amazing paddlers & coaches heading to Brazil in 4 weeks to represent NZ at the World Distance Championships!
Congratulations once again & Goodluck team 🧡
Pineula Muster 🌊
Thank you to everyone who came out to Takapuna yesterday. It was a beautiful day & we loved meeting, seeing and spending the morning with you all! 🙌
Hope to see you all soon! 🧡
PS: If you or anyone you know have any questions or want to know more information about Waka Ama, our club Pineula, training days and more - feel free to send us a message or email [email protected]
In August 2025, the IVF World Distance Championships will be held in Brazil 🇧🇷
In preparation for this, a few of our paddlers have been working hard, attending trials, and recently competed at the NZ long distance championships in Porirua, to qualify for World’s 🙌
We just want to take this time to acknowledge all the hard work these paddlers have put in so far and congratulate them on qualifying and being selected to represent NZ in Brazil:
• J19 men V1 - Rehutai Appleyard
• J19 men V6 - Lochlan Te’o, Naea Williams & Jeremiah Rimene Albrett
• J19 women V6 - Abigail Liufalani, Lucy Jordan & Okeroa Irwin. Coach: Maori Tere & Manager: Agnes Tere
• Open men V6 - Rehutai Appleyard
• Open women V6 - Jess McDuff
• Master men V1 - Simon Wolfgram
All the best on these next couple of months team! 🙌🔥
Long Distance Nationals 2025 🌊
We want to say a big thank you to Graeme @stonefish_oceanlife for always supporting us and for sponsoring our LDNs uniforms once again! 🙏🔥
Huge shout out to all our paddlers who competed at LDNs! And a special mention to these individuals and teams:
J16 men
• V1 - Lochlan Te’o 🥉
J19 women
• V1 - Abigail Liufalani 🥈
• W2 - Abi & Lucy 🥇
• V6 - Hawaiki 🥇
J19 men
• V1 - Rehutai Appleyard 🥇
Open men
• V1 - Manutea Millon 🥈
• V6 - Pineula Mulivai 🥇
• V6 - Team Pineula 🥉
Master men
• V1 - Simon Wolfgram 🥇
• V1 - Johno Smith 🥉
To everyone who continues to cheer us on through our preparation and trainings, and support us at our races - we appreciate you guys and thank you for being apart of our journey 🧡🔥
Day 3 of LDNs 2025 🔥
Another big day of racing for our club so a big congratulations to all the teams & individuals that competed and made the podium for the V6 and V1 races 🥇🥈🥉🙌🏽
• J16 men: Lochlan, Naea, Jason, Henry, Jeremiah
• J19 women: Hawaiki - Abi, Terina, Lucy, Siana, Nueva Okeroa & Poerava - Ryley, Pyper, Ayla, Gracie, Hine, Sina
• Open men: Pineula Mulivai - Simon, Rehutai, Tere, Jb, Johno, Manutea & Team Pinuela - Vance, Eric, Luke, Jake, Larome, Jackson
