Hokulea's first crew members reflect on its historic maiden voyage
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Hokulea's first crew members reflect on its historic maiden voyage
Hokulea's first voyage away from Hawaii on May 1, 1976 took her to Tahiti and back—two crews and 52 days at sea.What initially began as a scientific experiment to prove that Polynesians navigated the Pacific, and a nod to the United States bicentennial, ended up being a cultural revitalization in the art of canoe voyaging and navigation.
Hōkūleʻa
Hōkūleʻa [2] [3] is a performance-accurate waʻa kaulua, [4] [5] a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. [6] [7] Launched on 8 March 1975 [8] by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, it is best known for its 1976 Hawaiʻi to Tahiti voyage completed with exclusively traditional navigation techniques.
Hōkūleʻa
Voyages of Rediscovery. Hōkūle'a's first voyage to Tahiti in 1976 was a tremendous success. The Tahitians have great traditions and genealogies of ancestral canoes and navigators. What they didn't have at the time was a voyaging canoe. When Hōkūle'a arrived at the beach in Pape'ete Harbor, over half the island's people were ...
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Hōkūleʻa set to celebrate 50 years since maiden voyage to Tahiti
But in 1976, a traditional 62-foot, double-hull voyaging canoe called Hōkūleʻa sailed from Hawaii to Tahiti with a crew of 15, proving that the old ways were more than enough to carry people ...
Moananuiākea
A Voyage for Oceans,A Voyage for Earth, 2023 to 2027. Moananuiākea is Hōkūle'a's 15th major voyage in her first 50 years. At the core of Hōkūle'a's creation was exploration - to uncover, recover, and reclaim. Reclaim our culture, traditions, and our relationship to home and our island earth.
Hōkūleʻa
In 1973-1975, we built a replica of an ancient double-hulled voyaging canoe to conduct an experimental voyage from Hawai'i to Tahiti in order answer these questions. The canoe was designed by founder Herb Kawainui Kāne and named Hōkūle'a, Star of Gladness. In the last three decades, Hōkūleʻa has sailed over 140,000 nautical miles ...
Hokule'a marks 45th anniversary of maiden voyage to Tahiti
Forty-five years after Hokule'a departed Honolua Bay on her maiden voyage to Tahiti, the legendary voyaging canoe returned to Maui on Saturday to mark the historic anniversary. May 1, 1976, was ...
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Hōkūle'a's first voyage to Tahiti in 1976 was a tremendous success. The Tahitians have great traditions and genealogies of ancestral canoes and navigators. What they didn't have at the time was a voyaging canoe. When Hōkūle'a arrived at the beach in Pape'ete Harbor, over half the island's people were there, more than 17,000 ...
Oceans—Around the World the Old Fashioned Way: The Hokule'a Story
It was the completion of a 47,000-mile, three-and-a-half year voyage, around the world entirely under sail. The 12.5-ton, 62-foot double-hulled vessel is a replica of the vessels used for nearly two millennia to journey across vast stretches of the Pacific. In Hawaiian, Hokule'a means "Star of Gladness," referring to the zenith star Arcturus.
44th Anniversary of Hōkūlea's Maiden Voyage to Tahiti
May 1, 2020 is the 44th Anniversary ofʻdeparture for Hōkūleʻa's maiden voyage to Tahiti from Honolua Bay, Maui. That day in 1976 was the first time in 600 years that a Polynesian voyaging canoe sailed deep sea. It would take them 34 days to reach Tahiti. Crewmember Billy Richards who was part of that first Read more
Hokulea's crew physician shares treasure trove of memories from 1976 voyage
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On Hokulea's maiden voyage in 1976, Dr. Ben Young served as the crew physician on the returning trip to Hawaii from Tahiti.The crew's medical needs to minor, so Dr ...
45th Anniversary of Hōkūleʻa's Maiden Voyage to Tahiti ...
May 1, 2021 marks 45 years since the voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa departed Honolua Bay, Maui for her maiden voyage to Tahiti. It was the first time in more than ...
Hawai'i to Tahiti and Return: 1976
Other accounts of the 1976 voyage to Tahiti can be found in Ben Finney's Hokule'a: The Way to Tahiti (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1979) and in David Lewis We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific, 2nd Edition (Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai'i Press, 1994, pp. 312-341)."The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific" is a 59-minute video on Mau Piailug, Polynesian navigation and ...
Sacred Journey, Global Reach: a Story of Hokulea, the Canoe that
Honolulu Star-Advertiser reporter Marcel Honoré reported from aboard the Hokulea during the Polynesian voyaging canoe's sail around the world. ... Nearly 40 years to the day that the Hokule'a crew sighted land in French Polynesia on its maiden voyage, the vessel sailed into New York in June 2016, passing the Statue of Liberty in the distance ...
Hōkūle'a World Wide Voyage: An Ending, A Beginning
Kaimana Barcarse. This article is the sixth installment in a series documenting the historic undertaking of the three-year voyage of Hōkūle'a, a full-scale replica of a wa'a kaulua (Polynesian double hulled voyaging canoe) around the world. As the first of the fleet of canoes escorting Hōkūle'a enters the channel to Magic Island, many ...
Living legend celebrates Hokulea's return decades after sailing ...
The original 17 crew members received a hero's welcome when they returned to Magic Island on May 1, 1976. "It's all of us. It's not just one flag," Keaulana said. "It's all of us who ...
Searching for a Way
9. Rapanui. 10. Mau's Legacy. The First Voyage to Tahiti: 1976. Hokule'a's first voyage in 1976 was from Honolua Bay, Maui, to Papeete, Tahiti-a distance of twenty-five hundred miles. Back in the early seventies, before Hokule'a was even built, when they were putting the dream together, they said, "we need to get a Polynesian navigator"-someone ...
Hōkūleʻa
On March 8, 1975, Hōkūle'a, a performance-accurate deep sea voyaging canoe built in the tradition of ancient Hawaiian wa'a kaulua (double-hulled voyaging canoe), was launched from the sacred shores of Hakipu'u-Kualoa, in Kāne'ohe Bay on the island of O'ahu. She was designed by artist and historian Herb Kawainui Kāne, one of the founders of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. The ...
Hokulea, a Tradition of Hawaiian Voyaging
The vessel, also known as waa kaulua (double hulled voyaging canoe in Hawaiian) is guided at sea by her twin masts and long paddle. History of Hokulea. First pushing off in March 1975, the Hokulea made her famous maiden voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1976. The primary goal of this first trip was to support the theory of Asiatic origin of ...
After long voyage, Hokulea and Hikianalia to arrive in Tahiti
The location is where the Hokulea first arrived 46 years ago on her historic maiden voyage to Tahiti in 1976. Before their departure from Arutua Friday, the crew was hosted by community members of ...
1976 Hawai'i to Tahiti and Back
1976 Hawai'i to Tahiti and Back Ben Finney From "Voyaging into Polynesia's Past" in From Sea to Space (Palmerston North: Massey University, 1992) [Note: After the founding of the Voyaging Society and the building of Hōkūle'a (1973-1975), her first long voyage, from Hawai`i to Tahiti and back, took place in 1976 as part of the Bicentenniel Celebration of American Independence.
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Hokulea's first voyage away from Hawaii on May 1, 1976 took her to Tahiti and back—two crews and 52 days at sea.What initially began as a scientific experiment to prove that Polynesians navigated the Pacific, and a nod to the United States bicentennial, ended up being a cultural revitalization in the art of canoe voyaging and navigation.
Hōkūleʻa [2] [3] is a performance-accurate waʻa kaulua, [4] [5] a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. [6] [7] Launched on 8 March 1975 [8] by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, it is best known for its 1976 Hawaiʻi to Tahiti voyage completed with exclusively traditional navigation techniques.
Voyages of Rediscovery. Hōkūle'a's first voyage to Tahiti in 1976 was a tremendous success. The Tahitians have great traditions and genealogies of ancestral canoes and navigators. What they didn't have at the time was a voyaging canoe. When Hōkūle'a arrived at the beach in Pape'ete Harbor, over half the island's people were ...
Our latest voyage. Our Vision. Hawai'i, our special island home, is a place where the land and sea are cared for, and people and communities are healthy and safe. Vision and mission. Waʻa Honua. Our virtual third canoe with curated educational content to inspire exploration, leadership and care for our earth.
But in 1976, a traditional 62-foot, double-hull voyaging canoe called Hōkūleʻa sailed from Hawaii to Tahiti with a crew of 15, proving that the old ways were more than enough to carry people ...
A Voyage for Oceans,A Voyage for Earth, 2023 to 2027. Moananuiākea is Hōkūle'a's 15th major voyage in her first 50 years. At the core of Hōkūle'a's creation was exploration - to uncover, recover, and reclaim. Reclaim our culture, traditions, and our relationship to home and our island earth.
In 1973-1975, we built a replica of an ancient double-hulled voyaging canoe to conduct an experimental voyage from Hawai'i to Tahiti in order answer these questions. The canoe was designed by founder Herb Kawainui Kāne and named Hōkūle'a, Star of Gladness. In the last three decades, Hōkūleʻa has sailed over 140,000 nautical miles ...
Forty-five years after Hokule'a departed Honolua Bay on her maiden voyage to Tahiti, the legendary voyaging canoe returned to Maui on Saturday to mark the historic anniversary. May 1, 1976, was ...
Hōkūle'a's first voyage to Tahiti in 1976 was a tremendous success. The Tahitians have great traditions and genealogies of ancestral canoes and navigators. What they didn't have at the time was a voyaging canoe. When Hōkūle'a arrived at the beach in Pape'ete Harbor, over half the island's people were there, more than 17,000 ...
It was the completion of a 47,000-mile, three-and-a-half year voyage, around the world entirely under sail. The 12.5-ton, 62-foot double-hulled vessel is a replica of the vessels used for nearly two millennia to journey across vast stretches of the Pacific. In Hawaiian, Hokule'a means "Star of Gladness," referring to the zenith star Arcturus.
May 1, 2020 is the 44th Anniversary ofʻdeparture for Hōkūleʻa's maiden voyage to Tahiti from Honolua Bay, Maui. That day in 1976 was the first time in 600 years that a Polynesian voyaging canoe sailed deep sea. It would take them 34 days to reach Tahiti. Crewmember Billy Richards who was part of that first Read more
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On Hokulea's maiden voyage in 1976, Dr. Ben Young served as the crew physician on the returning trip to Hawaii from Tahiti.The crew's medical needs to minor, so Dr ...
May 1, 2021 marks 45 years since the voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa departed Honolua Bay, Maui for her maiden voyage to Tahiti. It was the first time in more than ...
Other accounts of the 1976 voyage to Tahiti can be found in Ben Finney's Hokule'a: The Way to Tahiti (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1979) and in David Lewis We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific, 2nd Edition (Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai'i Press, 1994, pp. 312-341)."The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific" is a 59-minute video on Mau Piailug, Polynesian navigation and ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser reporter Marcel Honoré reported from aboard the Hokulea during the Polynesian voyaging canoe's sail around the world. ... Nearly 40 years to the day that the Hokule'a crew sighted land in French Polynesia on its maiden voyage, the vessel sailed into New York in June 2016, passing the Statue of Liberty in the distance ...
Kaimana Barcarse. This article is the sixth installment in a series documenting the historic undertaking of the three-year voyage of Hōkūle'a, a full-scale replica of a wa'a kaulua (Polynesian double hulled voyaging canoe) around the world. As the first of the fleet of canoes escorting Hōkūle'a enters the channel to Magic Island, many ...
The original 17 crew members received a hero's welcome when they returned to Magic Island on May 1, 1976. "It's all of us. It's not just one flag," Keaulana said. "It's all of us who ...
9. Rapanui. 10. Mau's Legacy. The First Voyage to Tahiti: 1976. Hokule'a's first voyage in 1976 was from Honolua Bay, Maui, to Papeete, Tahiti-a distance of twenty-five hundred miles. Back in the early seventies, before Hokule'a was even built, when they were putting the dream together, they said, "we need to get a Polynesian navigator"-someone ...
On March 8, 1975, Hōkūle'a, a performance-accurate deep sea voyaging canoe built in the tradition of ancient Hawaiian wa'a kaulua (double-hulled voyaging canoe), was launched from the sacred shores of Hakipu'u-Kualoa, in Kāne'ohe Bay on the island of O'ahu. She was designed by artist and historian Herb Kawainui Kāne, one of the founders of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. The ...
The vessel, also known as waa kaulua (double hulled voyaging canoe in Hawaiian) is guided at sea by her twin masts and long paddle. History of Hokulea. First pushing off in March 1975, the Hokulea made her famous maiden voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1976. The primary goal of this first trip was to support the theory of Asiatic origin of ...
The location is where the Hokulea first arrived 46 years ago on her historic maiden voyage to Tahiti in 1976. Before their departure from Arutua Friday, the crew was hosted by community members of ...
1976 Hawai'i to Tahiti and Back Ben Finney From "Voyaging into Polynesia's Past" in From Sea to Space (Palmerston North: Massey University, 1992) [Note: After the founding of the Voyaging Society and the building of Hōkūle'a (1973-1975), her first long voyage, from Hawai`i to Tahiti and back, took place in 1976 as part of the Bicentenniel Celebration of American Independence.