Hōkūleʻa is a performance-accurate waʻa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. Launched on 8 March 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society...
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Eddie Aikau (category Hōkūleʻa)
his honor. He was also a crew member on the Polynesian voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa. Born in Kahului, Maui, Aikau was the second child of Solomon and Henrietta...
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Mau Piailug (category Hōkūleʻa)
techniques on the Hōkūleʻa, a modern reconstruction of a double-hulled Hawaiian voyaging canoe. The successful, non-instrument sailing of Hōkūleʻa to Tahiti in...
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"extremely unlikely" in 1973 by computer modeling. The 1976 voyage of the Hōkūleʻa, a performance-accurate replica of a Polynesian double-hulled wa'a kaulua...
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Polynesian Voyaging Society (category Hōkūleʻa)
years was launched with captain Kawika Kapahulehua and crew. Named the Hōkūleʻa, it left Hawaiʻi on May 1, 1976 for Tahiti in an attempt to retrace the...
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navigators knew Arcturus as Hōkūleʻa, the "Star of Joy". Arcturus is the zenith star of the Hawaiian Islands. Using Hōkūleʻa and other stars, the Polynesians...
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"extremely unlikely" in 1973 by computer modeling. The 1976 voyage of the Hōkūleʻa, a performance-accurate replica of a Polynesian double-hulled wa'a kaulua...
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Nainoa Thompson (category Hōkūleʻa)
since the 14th century, having navigated two double-hulled canoes (the Hōkūleʻa and the Hawaiʻiloa) from Hawaiʻi to other island nations in Polynesia without...
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did not pass on their wisdom to new students. As an example, when the Hōkūleʻa was built to be sailed to the South Pacific to prove the voyaging capabilities...
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Herb Kawainui Kāne (category Hōkūleʻa)
Together they founded the Polynesian Voyaging Society and began work on the Hōkūleʻa, a voyaging canoe based on historical Polynesian design, capable of sailing...
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navigation. The Society built multiple double-hulled canoes, beginning with Hōkūleʻa and followed by Makali'i, Alingano Maisu, and Mo‘okiha O Pi‘ilani. The...
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New Zealand without instruments in the waka Hawaiki-nui. In 1978, the Hōkūleʻa was capsized en route to Tahiti. Eddie Aikau, a world champion surfer,...
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Hōkūleʻa, a modern replica of a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe, is an example of a catamaran, another of the early sailing innovations of Austronesians...
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carbon fiber-reinforced polymer, with sails made from Dacron and Kevlar. Hōkūleʻa is a modern interpretation of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. It is made from...
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Alingano Maisu (category Hōkūleʻa)
to Satawalese navigator Mau Piailug, who navigated the voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa on her maiden voyage to Tahiti in 1976 and has since trained numerous native...
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American lifeguard and surfer (17 March 1978), leaving voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa after it began leaking to paddle to shore for help. The rest of the canoe's...
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Hawaiʻiloa (category Hōkūleʻa)
Tahiti, Raʻiatea, and Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands in company with Hōkūleʻa and a third canoe from Hawaiʻi called Makaliʻi together with two canoes...
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migration that make use of prevailing winds.[citation needed] Hawaiʻiloa Hōkūleʻa Kupe Percy Smith Urheimat Polynesian navigation Hiroa, Te Rangi (1964)...
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thought to have discontinued shortly afterward. In 1976, the crews on the Hōkūleʻa on their expedition to recreate the historical Polynesian voyage between...
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Hōkūleʻa, a modern replica of a Polynesian twin-hulled voyaging canoe—an Austronesian innovation...
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Loyola Marymount University boathouse. The Polynesian double-hulled canoe Hōkūleʻa docked in Marina del Rey in October 2023 as part of a four-year circumnavigation...
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Typical Austronesian ship designs, left to right: Hōkūleʻa, a replica Polynesian voyaging catamaran with crab claw sails Filipino double-outrigger (trimaran)...
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List of minor planets: 14001–15000 (redirect from 14566 Hokuleʻa)
— March 1, 1998 La Silla E. W. Elst · 3.7 km MPC · JPL 14566 Hōkūleʻa 1998 MY7 Hōkūleʻa June 19, 1998 Anderson Mesa LONEOS · 11 km MPC · JPL 14567 Nicovincenti...
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Polynesian voyaging canoe. The vessel, Hōkūleʻa, and the re-adoption of non-instrument wayfinding navigation, Hokule'a and creator and first navigator of...
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the voyagers did not stumble upon their land by luck. The double hulled Hōkūleʻa canoe was built in the 1970s to reflect and preserve this knowledge and...
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THE NEW INDIANS 1977 1986 50507 THE VOLGA 1977 1986 50507 VOYAGE OF THE HOKULE'A 1977 1986 50507 FUN AT THE FAIR 1977 1986 50509 African Wildlife (UK Version)...
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In modern times, a carving of Kihawahine served as the figurehead on Hōkūleʻa, a voyaging canoe launched in 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society....
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island of Lanai on a surfboard. The long-distance Hawaiian outrigger, the Hōkūleʻa, on which he was a crew member, began taking on water 20 miles off Molokai...
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April 2017 she was responsible for a welcoming ceremony for the canoe Hōkūleʻa, which involved 200 dancers. In 2002 she was made a knight of the Ordre...
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Daniel Akaka (category Hōkūleʻa)
Daniel Kahikina Akaka (/əˈkɑːkə/; September 11, 1924 – April 6, 2018) was an American educator and politician who served as a United States Senator from...
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