by Bryson Hoe | May 30, 2016 | Education, Newsletter, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Worldwide Voyage crewmembers participate in the Mālama Honua: Hōkūleʻa Worldwide Voyage Celebration at the Smithsonianʻs National Museum of the American Indian. Visitors learned about the history of Hōkūleʻa as well as her current voyage, science projects at sea, and...
by Bryson Hoe | May 20, 2016 | Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Teachers, Video Stories, World Wide Voyage
On May 18, 2016, Hōkūleʻa arrived into the U.S. capital via the Potomac River. Along the way, the crewmembers had to drop Hōkūleʻaʻs masts and sails twice to cross under the 14th Street Bridge, George Mason Memorial Bridge, Arlington Memorial Bridge, Theodore...
by Bryson Hoe | May 16, 2016 | Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Teachers, Video Stories, World Wide Voyage
Hōkūleʻa crewmembers and a delegation from Hawaii asked permission of the Piscataway Indian Nation to enter their lands as the original stewards of the land in the Washington D.C. area. They were welcomed to Piscataway with joy and warmth in celebration of the Mālama...
by Bryson Hoe | May 14, 2016 | Education, Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Hōkūleʻa captain and pwo (master) navigator Kālepa Baybayan of the Polynesian Voyaging Society led his crew ashore on Piscataway lands today. The delegation from Hawaii followed Hawaiian cultural protocol to ask permission of the Native Americans to enter their lands...
by Bryson Hoe | Mar 22, 2016 | Education, Newsletter, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Aloha, this is Kālepa Baybayan on board the sailing canoe Hōkūleʻa. We are in Havana, Cuba. We arrived here five days ago. It has been a thoroughly incredibly learning journey for the crew of the Hōkūleʻa and our escort vessel Gershon II. We have learned a lot about...