In fact, Hokule'a has not sailed alone in those seas. Not only has the project spawned a veritable renaissance in Hawaiian sailing canoes, but it has inspired Tahitians and New Zealand Maori to ...

and long steering paddles enabled Polynesian mariners to keep it sailing on course. A medium-size voyaging canoe 50 to 60 feet long could accomodate two dozen or so migrants, their food supplies ...

The three-year voyage of the Hōkūleʻa, a giant Polynesian sailing canoe, helped spread indigenous knowledge and concern for Earth’s future around the globe. In the summer of 2017, after a three-year ...

A traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe has returned to Honolulu in Hawaii, completing the first-ever round-the-world trip by such a vessel. The boat, the Hokule'a, took three years to journey ...

HONOLULU (CN) - The Polynesian voyaging canoe Hokulea completed the last leg of a historic three-year, round-the-world voyage on Saturday, pulling into port at Oahu’s Magic Island under full sail.

Prehistoric Polynesian seafarers were highly skilled and undertook some of the longest and most technically demanding voyages in prehistory—but did they ever sail into very high latitudes with ...

Those that left Tahiti by boat could simply sail to the east and north until ... as a sort of living plumb-bob. Multi-hulled canoes were used by Polynesian seafarers to cross great distances.

If sailing is your life, you've got to be patient," Baybayan says. "You're only going to move as fast as the wind blows.

“I favor the Polynesian theory ... their voyage would likely have been conducted in their double-hulled sailing canoes, which sail using the same principle as a modern catamaran: swift and ...

MĀʻALAEA, Hawaii (KHON2) — Voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa has made its ... p.m. to 7 p.m. The visit is part of the Pae ʻĀina sail ...