by Bryson Hoe | Apr 28, 2015 | Teachers, Video Stories, World Wide Voyage
“Foundational to navigation is the star compass because there’s all kinds of configurations, but it all comes down to a circle divided up into 32 equal parts,” said maser navigator Kālepa Baybayan. An ingenious tool introduced to Hawaiians by Pwo...
by Bryson Hoe | Jan 5, 2015 | Crew Blogs, World Wide Voyage
Written by Saki UchidaI believe kids are the only hope for the future. All the physical things will be gone someday, but our kids will be left along with natural environment that we are going to leave. I want to leave it better than what we have right now. It has been...
by Bryson Hoe | Dec 24, 2014 | Video Stories, World Wide Voyage
As their mālama honua journey throughout the Pacific comes to a close the crews made time to mālama the waʻa that have sustained them – over 35 hundred miles thus far! “The crews are working hard to look at all the fine details of both canoes. From the manu iho to the...
by Bryson Hoe | Nov 23, 2014 | Education, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Aloha! This is Saki Uchida, watch captain on Hikianalia. We are here in Whangarei and are conducting community outreach such as canoe tours, navigation teaching, aloha ʻāina flags, and sharing our message of mālama honua. It has been really fun and exciting to have...
by Todd Yamashita | Oct 26, 2014 | Featured, World Wide Voyage
This week, crewmember Saki Uchida shared the message of Mālama Honua—care for our Island Earth—with students from the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. Using videoconference technology, she connected with the Tokyo students from her alma mater live...