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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