by Bryson Hoe | Jan 7, 2016 | Crew Blogs, Newsletter, Teachers, World Wide Voyage
Written by Lohiao Paoa Hōkūleʻa has always been a part of my life, but voyaging has been in my genealogy long before my time. The Paoa name is found all over the Pacific, from Rapa Nui to Aotearoa (New Zealand) to the beautiful island of Molokai. Renowned as watermen,...
by Bryson Hoe | Jan 6, 2016 | Education, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Written by Bruce Black Last night was cloud-filled with no moon or star to steer by. Instead, we followed the wind and quartered the swells. The 10-2 watch got hammered by malolo (flying fish). Kealoha and Kaleo got hit, and there were a dozen on the deck. Most of the...
by Bryson Hoe | Jan 4, 2016 | Education, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Aloha ahiahi kākou eia nō mākou ma kēia wahi waʻa kaulua o kākou ʻo ia nō ʻo Hōkūleʻa. A ʻo wau nō hoʻi kahi hoa kipa o ʻoukou ʻo Kaleomanuiwa Wong, he wahi haumāna hoʻokele kēia na ke aliʻi nui, ke kahuna nui hoʻokele waʻa ʻo ʻAnakala Bruce Mealoha Blankenfeld....
by Bryson Hoe | Jan 4, 2016 | Education, Nav Reports, Newsletter, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Aloha ahiahi kakou. This is Kaleo Wong reporting to you direct from the pola of Hōkūleʻa on our leg 16 voyage from Cape Town across the Atlantic to Brazil. Here we are on day 10 of our journey. We expect about a week more before we get to our destination of St Helena....
by Bryson Hoe | Jan 1, 2016 | 1 MadMimi Lists, Education, Newsletter, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Happy New Year from the Hōkūleʻa! We celebrated the new year with a countdown and a dropping of a light down the mast. Times Square would be proud. Three, two, one…..Happy New Year! Then there were hugs all around and a celebratory ʻawa ceremony. We all gave thanks...