If sailing is your life, you've got to be patient," Baybayan says. "You're only going to move as fast as the wind blows.

Once this atoll had been reached, it was easy to orient the canoe for the short sail to Tahiti. The fact that the canoe sailed from Hawai'i to Tahiti and back, and that Mau had been able to ...

“Not only did they give us the best of their communities to sail on the deck of our canoes, they also continued the work to bring Hawaii to the global forefront of educational ...