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The Canoe Polo Fun Day event will take place on the Tullamore Harbour Branch Line on Sunday 25 May from 8am to 5pm ...
Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We’d been at sea all afternoon and most of the night. I’d hoped to get a little rest, but rain, wind and an ab ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We’d been at sea all afternoon ... which produce differently shaped waves called “seas.” The helmsman, ...
One Spaniard sailing through the region in the late 1700s wrote that the canoes were “exactly proportioned” and “extremely light and strong and very well shaped.” Initially, the arrival of ...
(500 Sails) — On Feb. 14 and 15, 500 Sails will be at Tachogna Beach during Tinian’s annual Pika Fest. At this beautiful beach, 500 Sails will offer traditional sailing canoe rides during the daytime ...
“I’d like to capture that same feeling for others to see it too, of being in a traditional canoe, sailing out there,” he says. “At one time our ancestors were doing it. It’s just that ...
The vision of Hōkūleʻa took shape when Herb Kawainui Kane, Ben Finney and Tommy Holmes formed the nonprofit Polynesian Voyaging Society in 1973 to replicate a traditional voyaging canoe — Hawaii ...
Veronique shows tourists how to navigate the outrigger canoe through the lagoon, while Galax unfurls the sail, lowers the sloping ... Birds and the shape of clouds helped them find land, Labaysse ...
The traditional, wooden, double-hulled ocean-going canoe typically has two sails and measures nearly ... The crew collected the eDNA with a torpedo-shaped device that is fitted with a 20-micron ...