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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. Hokule'a, Hikianalia canoes reach Tahiti - AOL

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    May 8—The Hokule ʻa and Hikianalia canoes have reached Tahiti after leaving Hawaii last month. The canoes sailed into Papeete, Tahiti, this afternoon and were welcomed by the Tahitian community ...

  6. Canoe sailing - Wikipedia

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    In other regions like Hawaii, Tahiti, and New Zealand, outrigger canoes are generally restricted to sport sailing and racing. Modern sailing outrigger canoes are usually made from glass-reinforced and carbon fiber-reinforced polymer, with sails made from Dacron and Kevlar. Hōkūleʻa is a modern interpretation of a Polynesian voyaging canoe ...

  7. Gaualofa - Wikipedia

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    Gaualofa is a reconstruction of a va'a-tele ("large canoe"), [2] a double-hulled Polynesian voyaging canoe. It was built in 2009 by the Okeanos Foundation for the Sea. [3] It was given to the Samoa Voyaging Society in 2012, on the occasion of Samoa's 50th anniversary of independence. [4]

  8. Ben Finney - Wikipedia

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    Finney vividly remembers his advisor handing him a copy of Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific [published by the Polynesian Society in 1956], a book by New Zealander Andrew Sharp that suggested that Polynesian canoes were no good, that Polynesian navigation was lousy, and that the Pacific had been settled randomly, and accidentally.

  9. Nainoa Thompson - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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