And once fully extended, the red, V-shaped sails announce who she is. She is the Hokule'a, Hawaii's famous voyaging canoe, built in the double-hulled style used by Polynesian navigators thousands ...

The navigator is often awake for many hours a day, making sure the canoe stays the course. Together, the crew braves the elements. When she sails, Tanaka feels "very connected to my past and ...

Nowadays, he shows tourists how to sail a Holopuni. Developed by Hawaiian Nick Beck in the early 1980s, the canoe is based on ... Birds and the shape of clouds helped them find land, Labaysse ...

Archaeologists, maritime historians, and anthropologists collaborated on the design of a vessel that would simulate an ancient craft in shape ... orient the canoe for the short sail to Tahiti.

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 first sailing canoe Sequeira built in the 1970s ... Gilliom, who lived on-site, had time to grab its new crab-claw-shaped sail and little else. “I locked the gate, and I kissed her, and ...

Tebuteb explained that the Maisu is a double-hulled canoe, which was a gift from the people from Hawaii to Mau Piailug for teaching the Polynesian people the lost knowledge of traditional sailing ...

He learned canoe sailing had been done for hundreds of years ... "It was in terrible shape having been very roughly treated by the Boy Scouts up at the Cache Lake Camp in Canada," said Bach.

“This voyage and its impacts reach far beyond the crew that sails,” says Kamalu. Hōkūleʻa will likely be at sea for the canoe’s 50th anniversary, on May 1, 2026. But there’s no rush to ...

The research team found five wooden canoes, ranging in size, shape and material on the bottom ... may have been tied to the vessel and even a sail, according to the study. It could have also ...