In 1973, Ben Finney and a group of Polynesian specialists and canoe enthusiasts formed the Polynesian Voyaging Society to build a large voyaging canoe to attempt the Hawai'i - Tahiti round-trip in ...
A traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe has returned to Honolulu in Hawaii, completing the first-ever round-the-world trip by such a vessel. The boat, the Hokule'a, took three years to journey ...
Heyerdahl needed this demonstration to support his theory that the first people to Polynesia came from the east, from South America. He claimed that it would have been impossible for early canoe ...
The Polynesian Voyaging Society is preparing to celebrate the 50th birthday of Hōkūleʻa, Hawaiʻi’s legendary voyaging canoe, ...
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Canoe Surfing “Biggest Waikiki in 30 Years” (Video)Canoe surfing, particularly aboard the outrigger style of boats, is one of the oldest forms of riding waves. It dates back to ...
Bruce Blankenfeld grew up in Hawai’i deeply connected to his culture through the care and oversight of a cherished symbol: ...
Nowadays, he shows tourists how to sail a holopuni. Developed by Hawaiian Nick Beck in the early 1980s, the canoe is based on an ancient Polynesian design, with a slender hull nine metres (30ft ...
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