Bark wins Molokai stock, Ambrosi-ODonnell win stock relay
Jack Bark “wrestling alligators” in the middle of the Molokai Channel. Photo by Kevin Allen Jack Bark was sick. The 18-year-old paddleboarder arrived in Hawaii last week to compete in the arduous 32-mile Molokai to Oahu Paddleboard World Championships with a head cold that made breathing difficult. When the race began at dawn Sunday morning, Bark wasn’t even thinking about winning. He was just hoping to finish. And when he finished, 5 hours 28 minutes and 16 seconds later, he wasn’t thinking he had won. Bark was happy just to have competed in, and completed, the race. But he had also just become the youngest paddler to ever win the stock division of Molokai. “Super cool,” Bark said in an interview Tuesday from Hawaii, where he was still trying to get his head around the fact that he’d won Molokai. “Especially waking up the morning of and still not feeling good, I was just hoping to finish.” Bark, who is the son of legendary paddleboarder and paddleboard maker Joe Bark, said that things felt better as soon as he got on the water Sunday morning. “I felt a lot better than when I was on land,” he said. [scrollGallery id =442] He finished on 59 seconds ahead the second-place finisher…
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