Pailolo Channel — United States

Pailolo Channel

15.5 km
Distance
Maui ↔ Molokaʻi
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Crossings marked «documented» are historical: reconstructed from chronicles, newspapers, archives and race results, with no governing body to ratify them. In the rankings they stand with the ratified ones.

Traditional knitted textile swimsuit, cap and goggles: no wetsuit and no tech suit; no contact with the boat and no drafting behind it.

Podium · Skin · Solo · One-way

  1. 1
    Linda Kaiser🇺🇸
    4:46 · 1990 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    5:20 · 1973 · 2 in Skin · Solo

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Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Linda Kaiser19904:46documented
2James Caldwell19735:20documented
—Jim Caldwell1973—documented
—Jim Caldwell1973—documented
—Harry Huffaker1989—documented
—James Jonsson1989—documented
—Jim Jonsson1989—documented
—Harry Huffaker1989—documented
—Janice Vierra1990—documented
—Linda Kaiser1990—documented
—Mike Spalding1990—documented
—Carl Kawauchi1991—documented
—Ulrich Klinke1991—documented
—Dennis Blake1993—documented
—Joe Nagi1993—documented
—Carl Kawauchi1993—documented
—Vernon Knight1993—documented
—Joe Nagi1993—documented
—Alton Motobu1998—documented
—Bill Costello1998—documented
—Carl Kawauchi1998—documented
—Alton Motobu1998—documented

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.

Source: Hawaiian Channel Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.