Polynesian Voyaging Society

Polynesian Voyaging Society

The Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) is a non-profit research and educational corporation based in Honolulu, Hawaiokinai. PVS was established to research and perpetuate traditional Polynesian voyaging methods. Using replicas of traditional double-hulled canoes, PVS undertakes voyages throughout Polynesia navigating without modern instruments.

History

The society was foundedcite web |url= http://www.hanahou.com/pages/Magazine.asp?Action=DrawArticle&ArticleID=608&MagazineID=38 |title= Among the Stars |author= Julia Steele, photos by Monte Costa |work= Hana Hou! Vol. 10, No. 4 |date= September/October 2007 |quote= ] in 1973 by nautical anthropologist Ben Finney, Hawaiian artist Herb Kawainui Kane, and sailor Charles Tommy Holmes. The three wanted to show that ancient Polynesians could have purposely settled the Polynesian Triangle using non-instrument navigation. The first PVS project was to build a replica of a double-hulled voyaging canoe.

Hokuleokinaa

On March 8, 1975, the first voyaging canoe to be built in the Hawaiian Islands in over 600 years was launched with captain Kawika Kapahulehua and crew. Named the "Hōkūleʻa", it left Hawaiokinai on May 1, 1976 for Tahiti in an attempt to retrace the ancient voyaging route. Micronesian navigator Mau Piailug, using no instruments, successfully navigated the canoe to Tahiti, arriving there on June 3, 1976.

After an attempted voyage to Tahiti in 1978 was aborted when the "Hokuleokinaa" capsized near Lānaokinai and crew member Eddie Aikau was lost at sea, Piailug trained Nainoa Thompson in the ancient navigation methods. Two years later in 1980, Thompson replicated the successful 1976 voyage to Tahiti, becoming the first modern Hawaiian to master the art of Polynesian navigation.

Since that voyage, the "Hokuleokinaa" and her sister canoe the "Hawaiokinailoa" have undertaken voyages to other islands in Polynesia, including Samoa, Tonga, and New Zealand.

Alingano Maisu

On January 23, 2007 the "Hokuleokinaa" and the "Alingano Maisu" set sail on a voyage to Micronesia and Japan. In March, 2007 the canoes arrived at Piailug's home island of Satawal where five native Hawaiians and sixteen others were inducted into Pwo as master navigators. The event was the first Pwo ceremony on Satawal in 50 years and the "Alingano Maisu" was presented to Piailug as a gift for his contribution in reviving wayfinding navigation.

References

* Ben R. Finney; "Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors: Reviving Polynesian Voyaging" (Bishop Museum Press, 2004 ISBN 1-58178-025-7)
* Ben R. Finney; "Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia" (University of California Press, 1994 ISBN 0-520-08002-5)
* Will Kyselka; "An Ocean in Mind" (University of Hawaii Press, 1987 ISBN 0-8248-1112-7)
* David Lewis; "We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific" (University of Hawaii Press; 1994 ISBN 0-8248-1582-3)

External links

* [http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/welcome.html Polynesian Voyaging Society] official site
* [http://www.moolelo.com/hokulea.html Voyages with Hokule'a] A personal web site
* [http://starbulletin.com/2007/03/18/news/story04.html Navigators' journey of spirit, skill ends]


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