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.

Hawai‘i Island is the big stop before the Polynesian voyaging canoes leave for Tahiti on a three-year Pacific-wide voyage.

Students are taught primarily in ‘olelo Hawaii and learn traditional practices both indoors and outdoors—including aboard a double-hulled sailing canoe that serves as a classroom.

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 ...

and long steering paddles enabled Polynesian mariners to keep it sailing on course. A medium-size voyaging canoe 50 to 60 feet long could accomodate two dozen or so migrants, their food supplies ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Aspiring canoe builders will once again set sail from North Beach in Lake Charles tomorrow for the third annual Canoe Building Competition. The event, hosted by the City ...

“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 ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Aspiring canoe builders will once again set sail from North Beach in Lake Charles tomorrow for the third annual Canoe Building Competition. The event, hosted by the City of ...