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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 ...
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.
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.
Together they founded the Polynesian Voyaging Society and began work on the Hōkūleʻa, a voyaging canoe based on historical Polynesian design, capable of sailing between Hawaiʻi and Tahiti. [6] Their purpose was to prove that ancestral Polynesian voyagers could have purposely navigated in vessels of similar type to settle Hawaiʻi. [7]
A founding member of the Polynesian voyaging society, the father, Billy Richmond, then worked on the construction site of the Hokule'a canoe. [5] After the baccalaureate, Michel obtained his arborist diploma. He created a pruning company, Genesis tahitian tree service. Having won large contracts in California, he soon employed a dozen people.
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 .
Faʻafaite is a reconstruction of a double-hulled Polynesian voyaging canoe. It was built in 2009 by the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea. [ 2 ] It is operated by the Fa’afaite-Tahiti Voyaging Society and used to teach used to teach polynesian navigation .
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] In 2022 the society celebrated its 30th anniversary. [6]