LAHAINA, Maui — The Hawaiian Canoe Club's conquest of the Hawaiian islands is now complete.

Hawaiian won its fifth consecutive state crown, dominating the Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association State Championship Regatta yesterday at Hanaka'o'o Beach. Hawaiian, a club based at Kahului Harbor, has now won a state title on each of the major islands — O'ahu (twice), Kaua'i, the Big Island, and now Maui.

"To do it at home with all our paddlers here, plus the parents and all the backers, it makes this one really special," Hawaiian head coach Diane Ho said.

And this one was not even close.

Hawaiian won a regatta-high seven races and amassed 353 points in the 37 races. O'ahu champion Kailua was a distant second with 275 points, and Hui Nalu was third with 240.

It was the largest margin of victory in the history of the state regatta. More than 3,000 paddlers representing 56 clubs participated in yesterday's day-long regatta.

"We were planning for it to come down to the last race of the day — that's how close we seriously thought it would be," Ho said. "So from that standpoint, I am a little surprised. But the way things started with our kids, I had a feeling we'd be OK."

As expected, Hawaiian's youth crews gave the club an early lead. Unexpectedly, that lead turned out to be untouchable.

Hawaiian won six of the 13 youth races: girls 12, girls 14, girls 15, boys 15, girls 16 and boys 18. The Hawaiian youth crews scored 153 points — enough to beat many of the other full clubs yesterday.

"Our kids have been our bread and butter every year we won the state championship," said Paul Luuwai, coach of the Hawaiian youth program. "But they did more than what we expected this time. They just carried us."

Luuwai said the biggest surprise came from his girls 14 crew, which didn't win the Maui title last month, but came back to win the state race yesterday.

"To be honest, I didn't think we were going to win," said Leilani Miranda, a paddler on the girls 14 crew. "But we just paddled hard the whole way and started screaming when we looked up and saw we won."

Shortly after that race, the girls 16 crew followed with another win.

"At practice, that's when the coaches get on us," said Kuulei Salzer, a paddler on the girls 16 crew. "But during the regattas, they just let us go on our own, and I think that's why we do good."

Hawaiian capped the youth races with an impressive victory in the boys 18 race.

"That's like the pride race of the kids' division, so to win that one really made my day," Luuwai said.

The boys 18 crew put in its best time of the year, completing the 1-mile course in 7 minutes, 21.91 seconds.

"I could tell our crew was on from the start," steersman Kekupaa Nae'ole said. "We were paddling to our full potential — I could feel it — and I knew we would come out ahead."

After that, the adults of Hawaiian maintained the lead the rest of the day. The only Hawaiian win in the adult races came in the men's freshman race, but several other crews scored top-five finishes.

"I'll never take anything from our kids because they're the reason we are where we are," said Stewart Kawakami, who steered the winning men's freshman crew. "But we wanted to come out in the men's division and show that it does take a club effort to win the state championship."

Kailua won only two races (mixed 40 and women 55), and never threatened Hawaiian's lead.

"It didn't go as planned for us," Kailua head coach Jimmy Bruhn said. "We had some last minute cancellations of guys who couldn't make the trip, and so we had to scramble some of our paddlers around. But it didn't matter. Hawaiian is too powerful a club. You just have to take your hat off to them. They killed it."

Hui Lanakila placed fourth overall with 192 points and won the prestigious women's senior race.

The crew of Jessie Eames, Mikala Bradley, Seraphina Eames, Michelle Arnold, Arlene Holzman and Katie Slocumb completed the 1 1/2-mile course in 12:38.47. The Waikiki Beachboys were second at 12:52.19.

"It seemed like we had a good start and we kept slowly moving ahead," Slocumb said. "If you're going to win a race in the state regatta, seniors is the one you want."

Earlier in the day, the Beachboys women beat the Hui Lanakila by a half-second in the 1-mile sophomore race.

"We tried not to get too flustered by that," Slocumb said. "But we wanted some redemption."

In the men's senior race, Wailea took advantage of Lanikai's absence to win the senior championship for the first time.

The crew of Kai Bartlett, Jacob Abeytia, Tony Calderon, Zach Hartman, Felipe Gomes and Kekoa Cramer completed the 1 1/2-mile course in 10:47.54 to edge Kai E Hitu by three seconds.

Lanikai, which had won the men's senior race 11 of the previous 12 years, did not participate in yesterday's state regatta because of a dispute over the legality of its koa canoe.

"It's our home island and I don't know if any team from Maui has ever won the senior race at states, so it's huge for us," Cramer said. "The only bummer is that Lanikai is not here because everybody knows they're the best."

Bartlett is actually a member of Lanikai, but he moved to Maui this year and opted to paddle with Wailea when he found out Lanikai was withdrawing from the state regatta.

"I will always be with Lanikai," he said. "But I figured since I live on this island now, I might as well participate. I was just glad to help Wailea, even if it's only for this year."

The last time the state regatta was held on Maui in 1999, the event was not completed because of several controversial mishaps. But yesterday, the races were completed by 5:45 p.m. and most of the coaches agreed that the course was fair.

"It was a huge improvement over the last time," Bruhn said. "It was a great day for racing, it's just that nobody could catch Hawaiian."