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offset
see asymmetric

Olo
A narrow and thick board, oval in cross-section,traditionally made of willi willi, the lightest of Hawai'ian timbers and favored as outrigger floats.
Often claimed to be used exclusively by Hawaiian royalty, with lengths reported from12-18 ft, they were ridden prone.

"In riding with the olo or thick board, on a big surf, the board is pointed landward and the rider, mounting it, paddles with his hands and impels with his feet to give the board a forward movement, and when it receives the momentum of the surf and begins to rush downward, the skilled rider will guide his course straight, or obliquely, apparently at will, according to the spending character of the surf ridden, to land himself high and dry on the beach, or dismount on nearing it, as he may elect.
This style was called kipapa."

- Anonymous: "Hawaiian Surf-riding."
Thrum, Thomas G. (editor) : Thrum's Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1896.
Honolulu, 1896, page 110.

"kipapa: nvi. Prone position on a surfboard; to asume such.

- Pukui and Elbert: Hawaiian Dictionary (1986) page 154.

John Clarke notes two interesting cases of olo use in a chapter entitled "Surfboards as Paddleboards."
The first relates the crossing of the Molokai Channel by King Kihapi'ilani.
Although John translates the Hawai'ian text as "surfed ... from Maui to Molokai," presumably the king paddled, and rode swells, while prone.
In the second example, King Kaikipananea paddled from Maui to Hawai'i "on a surfboard made of williwilli wood," probably an olo board.

-Kapa Nupepa Kuokoa, August 23, 1884, page 3.
-Kapa Nupepa Kuokoa, March 23, 1865, page 1.
in Clark: Hawaiian Surfing (2011) pages 37-38.

Okinuee
generally the name of the hollow timber boards made by Gordon Woods, Bill Wallace and Barry Bennett and others in 1956-1958 in an attempt to reproduce the balsa and fibreglass boards brought to Australia by the visiting American / Hawaiian teams.
Sometimes refers to said balsa boards.

onion fracture
circular cracks in the fibreglass, usually on the rear deck, probably from the rider’s heels.

onion repair
method of repairing deep dings by laminating increasingly larger fibreglass patches into the hole, often resulting in a circular pattern after sanding.

outline/template/plane shape
see template.

outside rail
the edge of a board furthest away from the wave face, compare inside rail.

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