Posts

Update via ʻŌiwi TV. Hikianalia catches two mahimahi. Video updates from apprentice navigators Jenna and Austin.

Update via ʻŌiwi TV. Includes video update from apprentice navigator Jenna Ishii.

A new composition by Chucky Boy Chock, Jack Johnson, and Paula Fuga celebrate the new generation of navigators. The artists have recorded the song as an in-kind donation to the Polynesian Voyaging Society to raise awareness about the voyage.

In addition to provisioning for a deep sea voyage, the onboard arrangement of food, water, and supplies are carefully managed.

The Hilo community gave their aloha to Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia as departure for Tahiti approaches.

Noelani Kamalu, a teacher at Hālau Kū Māna, connects mathematics and voyaging as a crew member onboard Hōkūleʻaʻs journey to Tahiti.

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.