KANEOHE, Hawai'i — Hawai'i's American colonizers once banned the ... That vessel — a double-hulled sailing canoe called the ...

New genetic research shows that there was mingling between ancient native peoples from Polynesia and South America ... in their double-hulled sailing canoes, which sail using the same principle ...

Once this atoll had been reached, it was easy to orient the canoe for the short sail to Tahiti. The fact that the canoe sailed from Hawai'i to Tahiti and back, and that Mau had been able to ...