Recreation of the ancient Polynesian Voyages begun in the 1970'ites. The Polynesian Voyaging Society furnished a 1st modern recreation of a Voyaging Canoe and began to revive the skill of traditional Open Ocean Voyaging. The crew was educated by the Micronesian navigator from a small Atoll of Satawal, Mau Piailug (see also this Wiki-Entry). He was one of the few remaining people in existence with this ancient knowledge. In 1976 Piailug, his Hawaiian student Nainoa Thompson and others sailed the Hokule’a from Hawaii to Tahiti on an epic journey without any navigational aids, and... the Polynesian Pride was reborn. The Pacific was never the same! Every Pacific Island State made it to a matter of national honor to construct a historic canoe and to educate a crew. We never saw Hokule'a from up close, but we were fortunate to visit in Honolulu the sister ship Hawai'iloa and to talk to one of the navigators.

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