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 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.