The canoe will sail about 43,000 nautical miles and visit 36 countries and archipelagoes, nearly 100 Indigenous territories and more than 300 ports, according to the Polynesian Voyaging Society ...

Indigenous students and community members gathered at the beach outside the Northwestern Sailing Center on Friday morning to launch a hand-crafted birch bark canoe for its inaugural trip on Lake ...

The celebrations for the grand send-off of a four-year-long global canoe voyage launching in Juneau and set to circumnavigate 43,000 nautical miles of the Pacific Ocean will begin this Saturday at ...

A replica of an ancient Polynesian canoe, called Hōkūleʻa, will be at Seattle’s Pier 62 for the next few days. It’s one stop of many on it’s multi-year journey around the Pacific Ocean.

The sail is tentatively set to begin in the spring of 2022 in Alaska and finish at Honolua Bay, Maui, on May 1, 2026, in time for the 50th anniversary of Hokulea’s 1976 maiden voyage to Tahiti.

A long time later — in February of this year — a group of sailors recreated Kupe’s journey, steering the double-hulled canoes known as waka hourua in New Zealand’s indigenous Maori language.

The four-year Moananuiakea Voyage of the Pacific officially began this weekend after weather cleared in time for voyaging canoe Hokule’a to depart from Statter Harbor in Juneau, Alaska early ...

Traditional canoes making voyage from Haines to Celebration get warm welcome from Lingít Aaní Group joins others from Southeast making long paddle to Juneau for biennial Indigenous event. by ...

In order to navigate while sailing, one has to be knowledgeable about the weather, constellations, how they move and where they’re positioned compared to the moon.

To understand the sailing performance of traditional canoes in Oceania, we replicated ten sail rigs and tested them in a wind tunnel. Measurements of lift and drag forces demonstrate substantial ...