by Alison Andrews | Mar 17, 2017 | Crew Blogs, Hōkūleʻa History & Moʻolelo, World Wide Voyage
Exactly ten years ago, on March 17th, 2007, Pius Mau Piailug held a ceremony to initiate 16 of his students as Pwo – Master Navigators – and realized one of the most important goals in his long and illustrious life – the perpetuation of the ancient art of...
by Alison Andrews | Mar 13, 2017 | Crew Blogs, Hōkūleʻa History & Moʻolelo, World Wide Voyage
LANDFALL – HOKULE’A RAISES RAPA NUI FROM THE SEA. Eighteen years ago, Hokule’a first visited Rapa Nui on a historic voyage that closed the Polynesian triangle for the Polynesian Voyaging Society. Here is the report filed by crewmember/documenter Sam Low. Friday,...
by Alison Andrews | Feb 28, 2017 | Newsletter, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
The Navigators Blog by Nāʻālehu Anthony It’s hard to believe that there are only a handful of legs left before our Mama canoe Hōkūleʻa returns home. After sailing for nearly three years on the international portion of the Worldwide Voyage, the Mālama Honua movement...
by Alison Andrews | Feb 27, 2017 | Nav Reports, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
The crew of Hōkūleʻa arrived safely at Rapa Nui today after sailing for about 16 days across approximately 1,900 nautical miles of deep ocean. A team of four apprentice navigators successfully lead Hōkūleʻa and the major navigational challenge of spotting the tiny...
by Alison Andrews | Feb 26, 2017 | Newsletter, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Blog by Nāʻālehu Anthony Patience According to the navigation team, this will be our last full 24-cycle on the canoe. Since last writing, we have been steadily searching for clues that land is nearby. While the clues have been plentiful, any actual land has proven...