by Bryson Hoe | Mar 15, 2016 | Crew Blogs, Newsletter, Teachers, Voyaging, World Wide Voyage
Written by Mark Ellis Preparation and planning for a voyage has always been key. Under the leadership of pwo navigator Bruce Blankenfeld, crew members of Leg 19 of the Worldwide Voyage have been actively preparing to take Hōkūle’a into the Intercoastal Waterway...
by Bryson Hoe | Feb 11, 2016 | Crew Blogs, Newsletter, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Written by Kālepa Baybayan Nestled on the southern bank of the Potengi river, Hōkūleʻa sways on the tide and river current, at rest now after a 3,000 nautical mile passage from Cape Town, South Africa. The new crew of Hōkūleʻa is in Natal (Portuguese for Christmas),...
by Bryson Hoe | Dec 22, 2015 | Education, Newsletter, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
After undergoing ten days of dry dock maintenance and other preparations in Cape Town, South Africa, Hōkūleʻa is ready to continue the Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage and set sail across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in history. Scheduled to depart South Africa...
by Bryson Hoe | Apr 29, 2015 | Updates, World Wide Voyage
Written by Maui Tauotaha Today we worked on the waʻa all day, pulling anchor, breaking down the canopy, sponging out our holds, and bending the mizzen crab claw. But we didn’t have enough time to raise it, which is probably for the best because weather changes...
by Bryson Hoe | Apr 28, 2015 | Crew Blogs, Teachers, World Wide Voyage
Written by Joia Karen Holman In the days and months preceding a voyage, there is a realm of the “in between”, a twilight type of time when one foot is on land and the other is somewhere distant and imaginative. It was the presence of children that finally prompted my...