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2. Polynesian navigation - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Hōkūleʻa - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Faʻafaite - Wikipedia

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   Faʻafaite is one of eight vaka moana built for the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea and gifted to Pacific voyaging societies. [1] The vaka hulls are constructed of fiberglass, The wood beams are connected to the hulls with traditional lashings. The two masts are rigged with crab claw sails, with bermuda rigged sails for safety during long voyages.

5. Polynesian Voyaging Society - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Tepukei - Wikipedia

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   Removing the noun article te, the original meaning of puke, as reconstructed for the ancestor Proto-Polynesian is “bow and stern decking on a canoe”. [1] By metonymy, the name of that deck has become used for the ship as a whole. (The Proto-Polynesian root for “boat” or “canoe” is *waka.) [2]

7. Herb Kawainui Kāne - Wikipedia

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   Technically, the craft was a performance-accurate full-scale replica of a waʻa kaulua, [10] a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. The name Hōkūleʻa came to Kāne in a dream, he has said. [ 3 ] : 155 note 4 [ 7 ] It is the Hawaiian term for the star Arcturus , which is of critical importance to celestial navigation in the Pacific, and ...