This March, Hawaiʻi is honoring the 50th birthday of Hōkūleʻa, a symbolic voyaging canoe. When the vessel was first built and launched in the 1970s, it sparked a cultural renewal in the Islands and around the world. To celebrate the momentous 50th anniversary, the Polynesian Voyaging Society invites the public to a series of special […]
Thanks to GPS technology, finding your way is easy today—unless you’re on the Hōkūle‘a. A wa‘a kaulua (double-hulled Polynesian voyaging canoe), the Hōkūle‘a has been making regular voyages since 1975, connecting with Indigenous cultures from around the world. Its Moananuiākea voyage, a four-year circumnavigation of the Pacific, is underway now. So on a vessel without
Sunday was a historic day for the Hōkūleʻa as it began its four-year journey around the Pacific. The Hōkūleʻa—a performance-accurate waʻa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe, operated and sailed using traditional Polynesian navigation techniques—left Statter Harbor in Juneau, Alaska, at 4:15 a.m. AKDT. And it will be on its journey through the Pacific Ocean
Today marks the maiden voyage of the Hokulea, the first double-hulled Hawaiian voyaging canoe to set sail since the time of Kamehameha the Great, from the Hawaiian Islands to Tahiti. It was a major achievement that sparked a thriving interest, awareness and perpetuation of traditional, non-instrument Polynesian navigation to this day. Adjacent to the current
With all the buzz and hype circulating around The Eddie Big Wave Invitational, which currently is in its waiting period, we wanted to explain a few things about the Eddie and why it generates so much excitement. The surf contest commonly called the Eddie is super special, and with all the coverage surrounding Hawaii’s promising
