Hokule’a crew is back home, reflecting on life-changing experience
There’s no telling what sort of assumed truths may suddenly become self-evident when you’re at the helm of a voyaging canoe in the middle of the Pacific.
For 31-year-old Kaimuki resident Angela Fa’anunu, it was this: The world is round.
Fa’anunu was one of a dozen crew members who guided the voyaging canoe’s Hokule’a on its 1,000-mile journey south to Palmyra Atoll last week.
After flying back to Honolulu on Saturday, she and …Â Details
Museum’s double-hull koa canoe is more than 100 years old
The double-hull canoe’s size is not very impressive.
“Medium small,” Junior Coleman said yesterday, not bothering to look up as he went about his work in Bishop Museum’s Hawaiian Hall. “A coastal canoe, maybe interisland on a good day.”
But the gleaming 20-foot, solid koa vessel is more than 100 years old, a treasure of Hawaiian heritage.
It could skim the ocean at about 10 knots, Coleman said, with 180- to 200- square feet of sail, although it probably has never taken the waters…. Details
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UNLV engineering students hard at work building canoe for national competition
It is a canoe, precisely 20 feet long, precisely 30 inches wide. It was engineered to weigh as little as possible, a trim 250 pounds.
It is made of concrete. It has floated. It will soon compete in a race.
These facts create a paradox: buoyant concrete.
The canoe is quite nice looking, with a glass mosaic, a gleaming paint job and a nickname tagged on its side. It’s the result of nearly a year of hard work.
“I think she’s amazing,” said Tiffany Hearn, the captain of the canoe-building team…Â Details
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The 31st annual Hockanum River canoe and kayak race will be held April 5.
Somewhat of a moving target over the years, the race will be held on the first Sunday in April rain or shine. Some past years, the annual race has been postponed due to the river’s level being too high or too low. The annual race not only draws some of the best paddlers from the region, but is also a good event for spectators. There are numerous viewing spots along the length of the …Â Details