The World is a Cruise Ship and the Cruise Ship is our World!
We were quite shocked last’s week in regards to the events aboard the Carnival cruise ship – but not in the way you would imagine. Being sailors and ocean navigators, we are used to taking care of our...
View ArticleNavigating the Starpaths toward a Sustainable Planet
This May, Master Navigator and Ocean Elder Nainoa Thompson will launch Hokule’a’s worldwide voyage from the island of Hawai’i. The theme is malama honua, which means to take care of each other and this...
View ArticleUN Conference in Samoa Unites World Leaders Behind Small Island Nations as...
By Courtney Mattison Equipped only with the tools of Polynesian ancestors and their unwavering conviction, the crews of the Hōkūle‘a and Hikianalia traditional voyaging canoes sailed into Apia, Samoa...
View ArticleSacred Forests – Part I: The Search
By Sam Low, author of Hawaiiki Rising In 1990, the Polynesian Voyaging Society decided to create a new canoe, to be called Hawai’iloa after a famous Tahitian navigator. Hawai’iloa would be built of...
View ArticleSacred Forests – Part Two: A New Friend to the Rescue
By Sam Low, author of Hawaiiki Rising A year earlier, Nainoa had driven into Honolulu to a restaurant called Fisherman’s Wharf – a place with a maritime motif, a motley collection of binnacles,...
View ArticleDouble-hulled Sailing Canoe Crosses the Globe and Lands at False Bay Hope...
Hōkūleʻa, the incredible wind-powered circumnavigation conducted by Mission Blue partner Pacific Voyaging Society, has recently reached the shores of South Africa, halfway around the world from her...
View ArticleThe World is a Cruise Ship and the Cruise Ship is our World!
We were quite shocked last’s week in regards to the events aboard the Carnival cruise ship – but not in the way you would imagine. Being sailors and ocean navigators, we are used to taking care of our...
View ArticleNavigating the Starpaths toward a Sustainable Planet
This May, Master Navigator and Ocean Elder Nainoa Thompson will launch Hokule’a’s worldwide voyage from the island of Hawai’i. The theme is malama honua, which means to take care of each other and this...
View ArticleUN Conference in Samoa Unites World Leaders Behind Small Island Nations as...
By Courtney Mattison Equipped only with the tools of Polynesian ancestors and their unwavering conviction, the crews of the Hōkūle‘a and Hikianalia traditional voyaging canoes sailed into Apia, Samoa...
View ArticleSacred Forests – Part I: The Search
By Sam Low, author of Hawaiiki Rising In 1990, the Polynesian Voyaging Society decided to create a new canoe, to be called Hawai’iloa after a famous Tahitian navigator. Hawai’iloa would be built of...
View ArticleSacred Forests – Part Two: A New Friend to the Rescue
By Sam Low, author of Hawaiiki Rising A year earlier, Nainoa had driven into Honolulu to a restaurant called Fisherman’s Wharf – a place with a maritime motif, a motley collection of binnacles,...
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