The traditional, wooden, double-hulled ocean-going canoe typically has two sails and measures nearly 60 feet long. Polynesians have used the vessels for voyaging for thousands of years.

The Polynesian voyaging canoe Hokulea will complete its three-year trip around the world and return to Hawaii June 17, where thousands are expected to greet the traditional double-hulled craft, ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - After four months and more than 20 community engagements around Hawaiʻi, traditional voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa is back home at Sand Island for the holidays.

No one has navigated a raft or voyaging canoe from Polynesia to Easter Island ... according to Van Tilburg, "took away the traditional link people had with the sea." For Van Tilburg, the ...

The Hokule ‘a, the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s traditional voyaging canoe, has returned home to Sand Island for the holidays. The Hokule ‘a spent the past four months around the Hawaiian islands for ...

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 ...

The Hokule‘a voyaging canoe, refreshed after four weeks in dry dock, sailed into Pearl Harbor Saturday morning as it resumed ...

Visitors will have the chance to step aboard the canoe and hear from young ... and programming highlighting the history of traditional Polynesian voyaging and Hōkūleʻa’s enduring legacy.

May 1, 1976, was the first time in more than 600 years that a Polynesian voyaging canoe sailed down Kealaikahiki, the ancestral sea road connecting Hawaii and Tahiti, using traditional navigation ...