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 ...

In 1973, Ben Finney and a group of Polynesian specialists and canoe enthusiasts formed the Polynesian Voyaging Society to build a large voyaging canoe to attempt the Hawai'i - Tahiti round-trip in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I favor the Polynesian theory ... their voyage would likely have been conducted in their double-hulled sailing canoes, which sail using the same principle as a modern catamaran: swift and ...