Archive for the ‘Boating’ Category
Eight athletes. Five ocean events. One champion. Take a breathtaking journey across New Zealand to see who will be crowned the world’s first Ultimate Waterman.
Chances are, if a woman were to tell you that she makes a living by sailing around the world, you would probably think that she’s living the dream. After all, not only is she making it in a traditionally male-dominated sport, she is also getting paid to be out on a boat on the sunny ocean — not behind a desk in an office somewhere. And that’s living.
Well, there actually are 15 women who are doing that very thing right now. They are called Team SCA, and they are the first all-female sailing team to compete in the Volvo Ocean Race … More
Hawai’i’s state treasure, the voyaging canoe Hokule’a is on a 47,000-mile journey around the world to bring people together to protect our earth and oceans.
Over the past 40 years, Hokule’a has sailed 150,000 miles throughout the Pacific Ocean, reconnecting the nearly-lost voyaging traditions of islands throughout the Polynesian Triangle. The design of our voyaging canoe, Hokule’a, mimics the ancient wa’a kaulua, or double-hulled sailing canoes, used by Polynesian seafarers a thousand years ago to find and settle every inhabitable island within 10 million square miles of the Pacific. Hokule’a’s deck, stretched between double hulls, is open to the elements. She is lashed together without steel rigging, or metal fasteners … More