The Hokule’a is expected to arrive home this afternoon or evening from the worst sailing weather in the Polynesian canoe’s history, said Mei Jeanne Wagner, Polynesian Voyaging Society spokeswoman.
She said that was the report from Nainoa Thompson, the society’s lead navigator, who remained home, but communicated daily with the canoe’s escort boat.
“The weather has been just awful the entire time,” she said, explaining that the canoe has encountered worse weather in the past, but never for an extended period, according to Thompson.
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