by Bryson Hoe | Aug 23, 2015 | Education, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Written by Naʻalehu Anthony. The last 24-36 hours have all been about the weather. We went into yesterday morning with a sunrise that showed us a few squalls on the horizon. In anticipation of challenging weather conditions, Bruce reviewed what sails we had up and...
by Bryson Hoe | Aug 20, 2015 | Education, Newsletter, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Aloha, this is Bruce Blankenfeld on board Hōkūleʻa in the Indian Ocean. We spotted land this morning by sighting Christmas Island, which is 550 miles along our track out from Bali, Indonesia. Last night at sunset, we knew by all of our deduced reckoning, which is just...
by Bryson Hoe | Aug 20, 2015 | Education, Nav Reports, Newsletter, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
So a little discussion about our course. We received a tracking map today from the office, and that’s pretty much what we intended to do and how it went. So initially, we just steered our course, which is one star house south of west. For our type of navigation...
by Bryson Hoe | Aug 18, 2015 | Education, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Aloha, this is Bruce Blankenfeld on board Hōkūleʻa in the Indian Ocean. And we have steady winds and nice gentle seas. Today, we had some good speeds of about 7 knots. Other periods we slowed down between 5.5-6 knots. Overall, we did 70 miles today, and our course is...
by Bryson Hoe | Jul 30, 2015 | Crew Blogs, Education, Science at Sea, World Wide Voyage
Written by Craig Thomas At dawn this morning we sighted the volcanic peak of Lombok Island, our first land fall in Indonesia. Nice navigating Jenna, Bali is close. The sun rises over Lombok island. The events of last evening inspired me to write about a fish I saw in...