HONOLULU (AP) — When a Polynesian voyaging canoe called the Hokulea embarked on its first trips in Hawaii in the mid-1970s, its crew was trying to prove in part that travel without modern instruments or techniques was possible.
That early crew set out for Tahiti, an island 28 miles wide from more than 2,700 miles away, on a trip that’s roughly like leaving Maine and hitting a bull’s-eye the size of San Diego, without any roads or landmarks to show the way.
In an era of global positioning satellites, this can seem a … More
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