LIHU‘E — Ten years after four men first dreamily proposed that each major Hawaiian island should ... The Namahoe, Kaua‘i’s double-hulled voyaging canoe, may be ready for ...

This authentic replica of an ancient Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe was built in the 1970s and has since voyaged thousands of nautical miles. “I really just fell in love with the place ...

Canoe surfing, particularly aboard the outrigger style of boats, is one of the oldest forms of riding waves. It dates back to ...

The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people ... corners of the Polynesian triangle, these oceanic colonizers developed great double-hulled vessels ...

Inspired by Disney's Moana? Channel the Polynesian princess in Tahiti, where traditional vessels take visitors on cultural ...

Organizations like the Polynesian Voyaging Society have been instrumental in this resurgence. The historic voyages of the Hokule’a, a traditional double-hulled canoe, navigated using ancient ...

Developed by Hawaiian Nick Beck in the early 1980s ... 1976 in Tahiti. This double-hulled canoe had been reconstructed in Hawaii by experimental archaeologists. The ship was greeted by 17,000 ...

Polynesian sailors were uniquely in tune with nature, and it allowed them to sail thousands of miles between islands in hand-carved double-hulled canoes in order to explore the vastness of the ...

This one hour program reviews the 2-year, 16,000 mile journey of the Polynesian Voyaging Society's double-hulled canoe Hōkūleʻa as it retraced the major migratory routes of the ancient Polynesians.