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Recent re-creations of Polynesian voyaging have largely used Micronesian methods and the teachings of a Micronesian navigator, Mau Piailug. [79] [circular reference] Anthropologist and historian Ben Finney built Nalehia, a 40-foot (12 m) replica of a Hawaiian double canoe. Finney tested the canoe in a series of sailing and paddling experiments ...
Polynesian voyaging canoes were made from wood, whereas Hōkūle‘a incorporates plywood, fiberglass and resin. [8] Hōkūle‘a measures 61 feet 5 inches (18.7 m) LOA, 15 feet 6 inches (4.72 m) at beam, displaces 16,000 pounds (7,260 kg) when empty and can carry another 11,000 pounds (4,990 kg) of gear, supplies and 12 to 16 crew.
The Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokuleʻa, arrives off Kailua Beach on May 1, 2005. The Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) is a non-profit research and educational corporation based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. PVS was established to research and perpetuate traditional Polynesian voyaging methods. Using replicas of traditional double-hulled canoes, PVS ...
The canoes sailed into Papeete, Tahiti, this afternoon and were welcomed by the Tahitian community, including French Polynesia President Edouard Fritch and other dignitaries, the Polynesian ...
In the hope that the navigational tradition would be preserved for future generations, Mau shared his knowledge with the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS). With Mau's help, PVS recreated and tested lost Hawaiian navigational techniques on the Hōkūle‘a, a modern reconstruction of a double-hulled Hawaiian voyaging canoe. [17] [18]
Apr. 12—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 ...
Nov. 12—The Hokule 'a arrived Tuesday night in San Diego, which will be its final stop in the United States leg of the Moananuiakea Voyage, according to a Polynesian Voyaging Society news release.
Marumaru Atua ("under the protection of God") is a reconstruction of a vaka moana, a double-hulled Polynesian voyaging canoe. It was built in 2009 by the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea. [2] [3] In 2014, it was gifted to the Cook Islands Voyaging Society. [2] It is used to teach polynesian navigation.