IVF World Sprints 2026: the first races kick off from the startline at 5pm Pacific (for Western Canadian viewers). Snap the QR code on the image below or visit https://www.youtube.com/@ivfiv/streams to enjoy a week of outrigger racing by the best in the world, including a large and powerful Team Canada crew of elite and club athletes. Best wishes to all our Canadian athletes!
The CORA Awards Committee wishes to announce that nominations for the Hugh Town Builder Award for the 8th and final year in 2026 will close as of end-of-day 2026-Aug-31. The remainder of the 2026 season will be quite busy with Team Canada athletes travelling to the 2026 Singapore IVF World Sprints Championships for several weeks late in August, and then the 2026 CORA Cup Series Championships will be hosted by Fort Langley Canoe Club late in September, and then the 2026 CORA AGM will be held just before end-of-year as has been common for many years. CORA will have continual social media postings on the 2026 Singapore IVF World Sprints Championships and you can follow the 2026 Singapore IVF World Sprints Championships Lane Draw / Progressions as well.
Nominations for the Hugh Town Builder Award as recently in 2025 have traditionally closed 2-weeks before the CORA AGM as per the Hugh Town Memorial Builder Award Policy, however the CORA Awards Committee has opted in 2026 for an early closure for nominations, so as to expedite the review of Hugh Town Builder Award nominations, and strike a balance with other CORA initiatives.
If you are aware of any CORA Members that have a demonstrated history as Builders in the sport of outrigger canoeing in Canada, please provide details via the Hugh Town Memorial Builder Award Nomination Form by end-of-day 2026-Aug-31.
CORA recognized that there were many individuals who had made “Significant and Exemplary Contributions” to Canadian outrigger canoeing, but their stories had never been captured, and they had never been formally recognized. CORA spent January 2021 thru June 2026 tracking down this history, and fact-checking as best as possible the exploits of those individuals who founded CORA, who founded / nurtured CORA clubs, who inaugurated / perpetuated races, who excelled at IVF / Molokai / Catalina / Queen Liliuokalani events, and who designed / built / imported / distributed canoes to grow the sport.
As of the August 2026 CORA Board Meeting there were 7 individuals inducted into the Canadian Outrigger Hall Of Fame for 2026.
CORA will have an online Town Hall late in 2026 or early in 2027 to recognize the inductees for 2026. CORA invites individuals who have known these Inductees to speak on their behalf at the upcoming virtual Town Hall session.
CORA wishes to congratulate the 7 Canadian Outrigger Hall Of Fame 2026 Inductees:
You can visit the CORA website and view the “Virtual Hall Of Fame” that has the names / headshots of the 7 individuals inducted this year and links to a 3-page PDF that has their contributions in 2-pages and a 1-page set of references on every online article that CORA could find where they were mentioned.