Our captains, working together with the national weather service, have noted that the appropriate winds for our journey will likely not appear until Tuesday 5/27.
With no refrigeration onboard the waʻa, majority of the crew’s meals consist of dried, packaged, or canned goods. But how do you supply a crew of thirty who will be out on the ocean for thirty days?
Hundreds gathered at the dock of the Marine Education Training Center, from which Hōkūleʻa, Hikianalia, and their crew would bid farewell to Oʻahu for the last time as they embark on their long awaited Worldwide Voyage.
Hundreds of well-wishers gathered to bid aloha to Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia as the waʻa depart Oʻahu for Hilo and then on to Tahiti as the inaugural international leg of the Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage begins.