HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On March 8, 1975, Hawaiʻi’s first long-distance Polynesian voyaging canoe in 600 years was born. On that historic day, many hands came together to launch the canoe into the ...

Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We’d been at sea all afternoon and most of the night. I’d hoped to get a little rest, but rain, wind and an absence of flat ...

The nonprofit Hui O Wa‘a Kaulua is working to replace a voyaging canoe that burned in the Lahaina wildfires. Photo courtesy Department of Land and Natural Resources With a group effort helping to put ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (HawaiiNewsNow) — As Polynesian voyaging canoes Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia remain docked in Auckland, crew members are reflecting on their voyage to Aotearoa. Hikianalia crew member ...

Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We’d been at sea all afternoon and most of the night. I’d hoped to get a little rest, but rain, wind and an absence of flat ...

As the double-hulled voyaging canoe Hokule‘a returned to its home dock at Sand Island from Maunalua Bay on Valentine’s Day, 23-year-old crew member Lucy Lee texted her boyfriend to postpone their ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) – Here is your Hawaiian word of the day: wa’a, which means “canoe,” and Saturday is going to be a shoreline here at Hakipu’u full of canoes that are celebrating the canoe, taking us ...

The Polynesian Cultural Center will host a free hour-long community show featuring the arrival of Iosepa, a traditional Hawaiian voyaging canoe. The show, open to the public and featuring Polynesian ...

From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., on March 7, the public is invited to Kualoa Regional Park to experience Polynesian voyaging culture.

HONOLULU (AP) — No modern navigation instrumentation guided a Polynesian voyaging canoe as it followed the horizon during a three-year journey around the globe. About a dozen crewmembers for each leg ...

The 17th Annual Kualoa Hakipuu Canoe Festival highlighted and aimed to continue Hawaii’s voyaging traditions and hosted numerous voyaging and educational organizations.