FROM THE ISLANDS TO INDIANA
“You get in the water, you wash off the day, get your head screwed back on the right. You won’t be too stressed about stuff that’s going on in life and keeps everybody grounded. So it works for me,” — Jimmy Kincaid
From left : Mehana and Anolani Leafchild
shape both mentally and physically. Papa Kincaid, better known as Jim- my, is the patriarch of the family and still paddles with his kids, including Ikaika, and now his grandkids. “You get in the water, you wash off the day, get your head screwed back on the right. You won’t be too stressed about stuff that’s going on in life and keeps everybody grounded. So it works for me,” said the spirited 73-year-old. “I share that with my kids. My kids share that with their kids. And now here we are, I’m in my seventies and I am still hanging out with my grandkids, getting in the water. It’s pretty epic.” Epic is right. This past summer, the family completed a three-channel crossing together (on a whim!). Needing to ship a canoe to inner-island, Jimmy was considering his transport options, then got an idea: “I thought, ‘Oh, you know what? Let me just check with the kids. Maybe we’ll just pad- dle it back.’ So I reached out to the grandkids.” After a flurry of enthusias- tic texts and with a little help from a few good friends, the escort boat was secured and stocked, the canoe was in the water, and three generations of Kincaids, some of whom bought last minute tickets from neighbor islands, put their paddles in the water and began their multi-day, multi-channel, multi-island voyage. “After we loaded our provisions on Johnny Mack’s 27-foot Hawaiian Power Cat at Mala Wharf, he and Pia Aluli made the 6-mile drive up the
Jimmy Kindcaid, affectionately known as Papa Kincaid.
14 AMA | NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2022
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