Sentence examples for outrigger from inspiring English sources

He says that these days traditional fishermen like himself must paddle their outrigger canoes far out to sea for a catch of skipjack tuna that sells for about 60,000 rupiah (about $5).

THE Pacific archipelagos of Fiji and Tonga have for centuries been connected by trade and kinship: Tongan princes sailed westwards in outrigger canoes to seek fortune in Fiji, while Fijians provided spouses for the Tongan nobility.

Turtles, dugongs, and fish were caught with nets or harpooned from single outrigger canoes.

Samoans and other Polynesians have used outrigger canoes since establishing their first island settlements.

Polynesians traveling in outrigger canoes arrived in the Samoan archipelago about 1000 bc, as indicated by Lapita pottery shards found in Mulifanua Lagoon on Upolu.

Among items on display at Hawaiian Hall are royal jewelry, crowns and thrones, weapons, feather capes and cloaks, outrigger canoes, surfboards, artifacts of whalebone and tortoise shell, and a ceiling-mounted sperm whale skeleton with a papier-mâché body.

The name proa is often applied both to this type and to the single-outrigger flying proa; however, the proa of the Pacific and the Malay boats are entirely different types.

The equipment could be anything from a piloted tandem ski to mono or dual sitskis that come with outrigger-type poles.

Until recently, going faster than 300 miles per hour on two wheels required stuffing oneself feet-first into a torpedo-shaped, outrigger-equipped streamliner motorcycle.

HAWAII Bon Voyage (0800 316 3012; bon-voyage.co.uk/spotlight) has seven nights' room only at the Outrigger Hotel on Big Island from £1,155 (saving £185), including flights from Heathrow and car hire.

"There were comments coming out of Washington, saying, 'If you're getting bailout money, you better not be headed to Hawaii,' " said David P. Carey, president and chief executive of Outrigger Enterprises, which operates a chain of hotels in Hawaii.