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2. Polynesian navigation - Wikipedia

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   In 1973, he established the Polynesian Voyaging Society to test the contentious question of how Polynesians found their islands. The team claimed to be able to replicate ancient Hawaiian double-hulled canoes capable of sailing across the ocean using strictly traditional voyaging techniques. [80] In 1978, the Hōkūleʻa was capsized en route to ...

3. Hōkūleʻa - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. 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 ...

5. Marumaru Atua - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Alingano Maisu - Wikipedia

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   Alingano Maisu, also known as Maisu / ˈ m aɪ ʃ uː /, is a double-hulled voyaging canoe built in Kawaihae, Hawaii, by members of Na Kalai Waʻa Moku o Hawaiʻi and ʻOhana Wa'a members from throughout the Pacific and abroad as a gift and tribute to Satawalese navigator Mau Piailug, who navigated the voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa on her maiden voyage to Tahiti in 1976 and has since trained ...

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 ...