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The society was founded in 1973 by nautical anthropologist Ben Finney, Hawaiian artist Herb Kawainui Kane, and sailor Charles Tommy Holmes. The three wanted to show that ancient Polynesians could have purposely settled the Polynesian Triangle using non-instrument navigation. The first PVS project was to build a replica of a double-hulled ...
The Polynesian Voyaging Society presented Piailug a double-hulled canoe, the Alingano Maisu, as a gift for his key role in reviving traditional wayfinding navigation in Hawaii. Then in March 2008, Piailug presided the Pwo ceremony for the Māori navigator Hekenukumai Nga Iwi Busby .
Hōkūleʻa [2] [3] is a performance-accurate waʻa kaulua, [4] [5] a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. [6] [7] Launched on 8 March 1975 [8] by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, it is best known for its 1976 Hawaiʻi to Tahiti voyage completed with exclusively traditional navigation techniques.
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 was gifted to the society in 2014. [3] Since 2018, the society has collaborated with NGO Korero te Orau to run a school holiday program on traditional voyaging and vaka knowledge. [4] In December 2019 the society was featured in an exhibit at the Cook Islands National Museum on the revival of voyaging in the Cook Islands. [5]
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.
At the age of 31, Aikau joined the Polynesian Voyaging Society as a crew member for the 1978 expedition to sail from the Hawaiian Islands to the Tahitian island chains in Hōkūleʻa, a replica of ...
Charles Nainoa Thompson (born March 11, 1953) is an American Native Hawaiian navigator and the president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society.He is best known as the first Hawaiian to practice the ancient Polynesian art of navigation since the 14th century, having navigated two double-hulled canoes (the Hōkūleʻa and the Hawaiʻiloa) from Hawaiʻi to other island nations in Polynesia without ...