HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hokulea has now traveled the farthest north it’s ever sailed ― to the famous Hubbard Glacier in Alaska. The journey last week was part of a ...

Festival goers at the sixth Festival of Pacific Arts gather in Avana Harbor on the island of Rarotonga to see off Hokule'a as it begins its voyage back to Hawaii in October 1992. Anders Ryman/Corbis ...

Every year, I see a proliferation of makeshift boats, sails aloft, plodding down big lakes and rivers. Canoe sailing is a great adventure and a wonderful way to make headway and combine a rest day in ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - After a one-day delay, voyaging canoe Hokulea is now expected to depart for Kauai on Friday. The Polynesian Voyaging Society postponed Hokulea’s departure on Thursday ...

The 500 Sails organization, which wants to revive the sailing tradition in the Marianas, is adding another canoe to its fleet, in time for the arrival on Saipan of the islands’ first Polynesian canoe.

The feat of Polynesian wayfinding—navigating by stars, wind, and waves—had long been discounted by scholars on the grounds that ancient Polynesians didn’t have the knowledge to be master navigators.

Yes, a canoe can be sailed. Who knew? We are not quite sure how this vessel was rigged to do this, but as you can see, it caught some air and away it went. CT boating registrations on decline since ...

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