Polynesians are renowned seafarers, and their island empire stretched from Hawaii to New Zealand and Easter Island. Although ...

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 ...

By sailing from Hawaii to Tahiti ... For Van Tilburg, the Polynesian canoe is a metaphor in her theories of how the Easter Islanders transported and erected their 15-ton moai.

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.

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.

The Polynesian voyaging canoes Hokule‘a and Hikianalia departed from Sand Island at about 11:15 a.m. Monday on the first leg of their sail to Tahiti. The Kealaikahiki Voyage is focused on ...

COURTESY POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY The Hokule ‘a will be available for tours on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. After four weeks in dry dock at Sand Island, the Hokule ‘a, the Polynesian ...

Nowadays, he shows tourists how to sail a Holopuni. Developed by Hawaiian Nick Beck in the early 1980s, the canoe is based on the ancient Polynesian design, with a nine-metre-long slender hull ...

While touring on the Pae ʻĀina sail, local communities are presented with the unique opportunity to board the canoe, learn about the revival of traditional navigation and the Polynesian Voyaging ...