by Mark McDermott Five years had passed since the last Kaiwi Solo, the world championship of outrigger canoeing. The race had been canceled in 2019 by one of the treacherous storms that often haunt the channel, a tumultuous body of water between the Molokai and Oahu islands, which translated from Hawaiian means “the channel of bones.” The pandemic wiped out the next three years until finally, the race resumed on May 16. Danny Ching didn’t know what to expect. He’d…