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Quality Craftsmanship & Experience - March “Tiger” Taylor has been building quality outrigger canoes since 1994. Starting with a mold from Walter Guild, then under a licensing agreement with Karel Tresnak, Tiger built the Horizon, Thunder, Viper, and Viper XL. Through this experience, Tiger gained a great deal of acquired knowledge and technology from renowned boat builders like Karel and Brent Bixler. However, the preponderance of his experience came from the painstaking process of building canoes himself and learning in the process. The two licensed affiliate builders of Tiger’s products are also held to the same standards of quality assurance. |
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Design
- Tiger Canoes have been designed for the
discriminating paddler, for whom appearance,
performance
and quality are the most important factors.
World champion paddler,
Mark Rigg and Tahitian canoe
builder, Jean Claude Brander teamed up with
Tiger in '99 to design Tiger Canoe & Kayak’s
first successful OC-1, the
Ono. The hull was
originally designed in Tahiti then brought
to Hawaii where it was modified with surfing
attributes. This started a new trend.....
designing canoes to surf. The
Kolea came next
offering a slightly smaller canoe than the
Ono with excellent surfing capabilities.
Both canoes have their niche, and while
designed to perform well in Hawaii's
open-ocean surfing conditions, they were not
necessarily ideal in flat water conditions.
The next challenge came to design a canoe
that would perform well in all
conditions.....the boat all canoe builders
strive for and the boat that all paddlers
yearn for.
Working again with Mark Rigg and shaper Dave Yap brought about the genesis of a new canoe. .. The Makia (meaning “ to strive for”). |
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Knowledge - Ideas for the Makia, as well as the other canoes, came not only from Tiger and Mark but from a wide variety of champion paddlers whose input was invaluable in the design phase to improve and enhance canoe performance. Some of the paddlers providing conceptual design input were Thibert Lusiaa, Pat Erwin, Beanie Heen, Masepa Tanoai, Britt Craven and most recently Mike Judd. |
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Locally
Manufactured - Supporting local
economies Tiger builds all his canoes in Hawaii, while canoes sold in Australia and the Mainland are built at those locations. |
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Custom Canoes - Colors are pre-selected by the customer. Limited only by your imagination, elaborate designs are available as well as custom details that can be added upon request. |
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Sport Involvement - Tiger and wife Jackie, a long time water sports enthusiast, are lifetime members of Kai Opua Canoe Club with over 30 years combined experience in the sport between them. Tiger began paddling surfskis 15 years ago and only recently has been able to competitively paddle his own canoes. In addition to designing and building canoes, Tiger does double duty providing support to wife Jackie helping with their two daughters as she worked and trained to steer the World Champion Kai Opua Women's Open crew for the past two years. Jackie was the first Sectretary of Hawaii Island Paddlesports Association and is still an active board member. One of the goals of Tiger Canoe & Kayak is to create an OC1 youth paddling program. The program recently gained a home and funding through the associations new canoe storage facility in Kona which is managed by Jackie for HIPA. TC&K annually sponsors a race for HIPA, and hopes to expand their support by sponsoring future races in other islands. |
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 Tiger Canoe & Kayak P.O. Box 90 Bass Lake, CA 93604 Copyright © 2005, Tiger Canoe & Kayak |
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