Today, The Grandma has received sad news. A beloved friend has passed away.
The best 007 Agent, the unforgettable Dr. Jones, the immortal Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez, the great Richard Lionheart; the intelligent Franciscan friar William of Baskerville; the mysteryous Jim Malone, the brave Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius... the list is as eternal as the path that he has started to follow, a way to unknown like the Hawaiian people have done since they learnt how to sail by their canoas and how to say goodbye to their community when the moment arrives.
May the winds be with you, dear Sean! You will be forever young.
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Hōkūleʻa is a performance-accurate waʻa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe.
Launched on 8 March 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, she is best known for her 1976 Hawaiʻi to Tahiti voyage completed with exclusively Polynesian navigation techniques.
The primary goal of the voyage was to explore the anthropological theory of the Asiatic origin of native Oceanic people of Polynesians and Hawaiians in particular, as the result of purposeful trips through the Pacific, as opposed to passive drifting on currents, or sailing from the Americas. DNA analysis illuminates this theory. A secondary project goal was to have the canoe and voyage serve as vehicles for the cultural revitalization of Hawaiians and other Polynesians.
Between the 1976 voyage and 2009, Hōkūle‘a completed nine additional voyages to Micronesia, Polynesia, Japan, Canada and the mainland United States, all using ancient wayfinding techniques of celestial navigation.
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On 19 January 2007, Hōkūle‘a left Hawaiʻi with the voyaging canoe Alingano Maisu on a voyage through Micronesia and ports in southern Japan. The voyage was expected to take five months.
On 9 June 2007, Hōkūle‘a completed the One Ocean, One People voyage to Yokohama, Japan.
On April 5, 2009, Hōkūle‘a returned to Honolulu following a roundtrip training sail to Palmyra Atoll, undertaken to develop skills of potential crewmembers for Hōkūle‘a's eventual circumnavigation of the earth.
On May 18, 2014, Hōkūle‘a and her sister vessel, Hikianalia embarked from Oahu for Malama Honua, a three-year circumnavigation of the earth. She returned to port in Hawaii on June 17, 2017. The journey covered 47,000 nautical miles with stops at 85 ports in 26 countries.
In between voyages, Hōkūle‘a is moored at the Marine Education Training Center (METC) of Honolulu Community College in Honolulu Harbor.
Polynesian voyaging canoes were made from wood, whereas Hōkūle‘a incorporates plywood, fiberglass and resin.
Hōkūle‘a measures 18.7 m LOA, 4.72 m at beam, displaces 7,260 kg when empty and can carry another 4,990 kg of gear, supplies and 12 to 16 crew. Fully laden, with her 50.2 m2 sail area, she is capable of speeds of 7 to 10 km/h while reaching in 46 km/h trade winds. Her twin masts are rigged either crab claw or Marconi style with a small jib. She is steered with a long paddle. She has no auxiliary motor. Her escort vessel tows her into harbor when necessary.
Her name means star of gladness in Hawaiian, which refers to Arcturus, a guiding zenith star for Hawaiian navigators. Arcturus passes directly overhead at Hawaiʻi's latitude, helping sailors find the islands.
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