Name: Dean Hanmer
Hometown: Gold Coast, Australia

Age: 21
Years Paddling: 6

Weekly Mileage:
About 30 miles at the moment

Preferred board length to paddle:
18 ft

Favorite Paddle route:
Snapper Rocks to Currumbin on a good day can be heaps of fun.

Favorite race:
Molokai. Everything about it is just awesome, especially standing on the beach at Kaluakoi and you can just see the mountains of Oahu, and you're like “that’s where we are paddling to?”

I Started Paddling Because:
I started paddling unlimited boards with a mate in a teams race on the goldie back in 2005, and I was hooked from then. Then I did the Hennessey’s Race in Australia in 2006, and I heard about this Molokai race in Hawaii and at first was like “that’s crazy. I’ll ...

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