and long steering paddles enabled Polynesian mariners to keep it sailing on course. A medium-size voyaging canoe 50 to 60 feet long could accomodate two dozen or so migrants, their food supplies ...

Along the way, some 250 volunteer crew members have helped to sail Hokulea. The trip, unthinkable just years ago, is one chapter in a long story. Part of a Hawaiian renaissance begun in the 1960s, the ...

By sailing from Hawaii to Tahiti ... For Van Tilburg, the Polynesian canoe is a metaphor in her theories of how the Easter Islanders transported and erected their 15-ton moai.

Nowadays, he shows tourists how to sail a Holopuni. Developed by Hawaiian Nick Beck in the early 1980s, the canoe is based on the ancient Polynesian design, with a 9m-long slender hull ...

If sailing is your life, you've got to be patient," Baybayan says. "You're only going to move as fast as the wind blows.

The Polynesian voyaging canoes Hokule‘a and Hikianalia departed from Sand Island at about 11:15 a.m. Monday on the first leg of their sail to Tahiti. The Kealaikahiki Voyage is focused on ...

Nowadays, he shows tourists how to sail a Holopuni. Developed by Hawaiian Nick Beck in the early 1980s, the canoe is based on the ancient Polynesian design, with a nine-metre-long slender hull ...

Thompson, president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, said the mahalo sail is not only to thank people, “but also to reconnect” with the canoe’s roots. He added that there was a reason ...

On Saturday, July 30, about 4 p.m., go over to Poipu Beach for the exciting finish of Na Holo Kai, a sailing canoe race from O‘ahu to Kaua‘i. One of the series sponsored by the Hawaiian ...

“I favor the Polynesian theory ... their voyage would likely have been conducted in their double-hulled sailing canoes, which sail using the same principle as a modern catamaran: swift and ...

The canoe will stop at Olowalu this morning to celebrate the designation of the reef as a “Mission Blue Hope Spot” before sailing into Honolua Bay at 4 p.m. • Polynesian Voyaging Society ...