by Bryson Hoe | Feb 26, 2015 | Updates, World Wide Voyage
Aloha, this is Moani Hemuli with your Hōkūleʻa drydock update. Today is Thursday, February 26, 2015, and we are here in beautiful Okahu Bay at the landing for Hōkūleʻa’s drydock. Today we continued to paint the railings, the navigation platforms, and forward...
by Bryson Hoe | Feb 25, 2015 | Updates, World Wide Voyage
Written by Moani Hemuli Led by master navigator and captain Bruce Blankenfeld, Moani Hemuli is part of a dry dock team caring for the traditional voyaging canoe Hōkuleʻa in Auckland, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Hōkūleʻa will venture outside of the Pacific Ocean for the...
by Bryson Hoe | Feb 12, 2015 | Updates, World Wide Voyage
Written by Kālepa Baybayan Aloha mai kākou, Tauranga is the second largest port in New Zealand and its fastest growing city. Logs and cruise ships line the docks, 40’ containers are neatly stacked on the wharf, and a mountain of salt is stockpiled nearby awaiting...
by Bryson Hoe | Feb 12, 2015 | Education, Malama Honua Selects, Video Stories, World Wide Voyage
With the art of wayfinding as the guide and the waʻa kaulua as their platform, the crews of Hōkūle’a and Hikianalia are inspiring new educational strategies in communities around the world. “So when we frame our thinking around the voyage, we have our two canoes,...
by Bryson Hoe | Feb 10, 2015 | Updates, World Wide Voyage
Kia ora koutou! My name is Kate Souness. I’m from a little town called Nelson at the top of Te Wai Pounamu on the South Island. And I’ve come aboard Hōkūleʻa to crew from Wellington down to Golden Bay up to Napier to Gisborne, and now we’re on our way to Tauranga. We...