Hokulea
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Hokule'a at Oshima channel, Yamaguchi-prefecture, Japan
Hokule'a at Oshima channel, Yamaguchi-prefecture, Japan
Stern of portside hull and center steering sweep
Stern of portside hull and center steering sweep

Hōkūleʻa is a performance-accurate full-scale replica of a wooden sailing vessel (Polynesian voyaging canoe) used in ancient Hawaiʻi. Its name means "star of gladness" in Hawaiian, and the name refers to the star Arcturus, a guiding zenith star for Hawaiian navigators, which falls directly overhead at Hawaiʻi's latitude.

It was built in 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, and is best known for its 1976 voyage from Hawaiʻi to Tahiti, performed without modern navigational instruments. The primary goal of the voyage was to further support the theory of the origins of native Oceanic people (particularly Polynesians and Hawaiians) being traced west to Asia as a purposeful trip through the Pacific and not simply drifting on currents from the Americas.

Since then Hōkūleʻa has completed seven voyages to various destinations in Polynesia and the United States, all using ancient wayfinding techniques of celestial navigation.

On January 19, 2007, Hokule'a left Hawaii with the voyaging canoe Alingano Maisu on a voyage to Micronesia and Japan.[a] The voyage was expected to take five months. On June 9, 2007 Hokule'a arrived in Japan.

When it is not on a voyage, Hōkūleʻa is moored at the Hawaiʻi Maritime Center in Honolulu Harbor.

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Contents

List of voyages

Images

Galley and Diamond Bakery's cookie bucket.[6]

Motto[7] on a crossbeam

Steering sweep grip of portside

Inside a compartment

Radio system

Hokule'a arrives in Yokohama Bay, 2007

Kama Hele at Yokohama port, on the day Hokule'a finished the 2007 Micronesia-Japan voyage

Notes and references

Notes

a. ^ Derek Farrar (October/November 2007). In the Land of the Western Sun. Hana Hou! Vol. 10 No. 5 (Article includes a travel diary from May 14 in Fukuoka through May 25 in Hiroshima). “After the new canoe was presented to Mau in March, Hokule‘a continued on a second mission, dubbed Ku Holo La Komohana (Sail on to the Western Sun), crossing 1,200 miles from the Micronesian island of Yap to Okinawa and then hopscotching through the islands of southern Japan to Yokohama. The journey was conceived to honor the cultural ties between Japan and Hawai‘i, which began with the visit of King Kalakaua to the Emperor Meiji in 1881 and were strengthened by the subsequent emigration of thousands of Japanese contract laborers to the Islands’ sugar plantations, many of whom remained in Hawai‘i, forever weaving their heritage into the fabric of Island life.”

References

  1. ^ Will Kyselka, An Ocean in Mind, University of hawaii Press, 1986
  2. ^ Ben Finney et al., "The Voyage of Rediscovery", University of California Press, 1994
  3. ^ Ben Finney, "Sailing in the Wake of Ancestors", University of hawaii Press
  4. ^ Kama Hele - The Ultimate Escort Vessel
  5. ^ 2007 Voyage Weblog > July 17, 2007: Kama Hele arrives home
  6. ^ The Voyage to Rapa Nui / 1999-2000
  7. ^ Kapu Na Keiki

See also

External links
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