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Crowds welcome Hokulea home to Oahu - Cagary - 06-18-2017
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/35686686/thousands-to-gather-for-historic-hokulea-homecoming
-Veritas odium parit”(Terence 195–159 BC))-"Truth begets hatred".
RE: Crowds welcome Hokulea home to Oahu - PaulW - 06-18-2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/us/ben-finney-dead-hawaii-tahiti.html
Interesting article in the NYT about the guy who helped start the revival.
RE: Crowds welcome Hokulea home to Oahu - SBH - 06-18-2017
I was there all day, chicken skin. Going to convention center today.
Happy Father's Day to all the Dads!
RE: Crowds welcome Hokulea home to Oahu - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 06-18-2017
Welcome home Hokulea. I remember watching the ship on the horizon from HPP's coastline as it departed two years ago. Amazing voyage.
Thanks for the link PaulW, which included some of the Hokulea's background and history. It was quite an effort to gather together anthropological studies, sketches from Captain Cook's expedition of an original double hulled craft, the tools and materials for constructution, and finally a living, experienced celestial navigator. So many people had to work together, but even when the ship was completed there were disagreements:
Soon after setting sail, several of the Hawaiian crew members staged a mutiny, resentful that the Hokulea was not sailing around the Hawaiian Islands in a show of ethnic pride. They called Kawika Kapahulehua, the Hawaiian captain, a coconut — brown on the outside, white on the inside. When the canoe reached Tahiti, they threw punches at him and threatened to burn the boat.
Let's hope the ultimate success of the Hokulea, which now brings the people of Hawaii together in admiration for the accomplishments of ship and crew, might be used as a model in discussions about other projects in the future. Even if there are disagreements along the way.
RE: Crowds welcome Hokulea home to Oahu - MarkD - 06-18-2017
Pardon me for duplicating some of what is here on a separate thread. My bad. (If Rob wants to delete my thread we can just post that text here.)
RE: Crowds welcome Hokulea home to Oahu - PaulW - 06-18-2017
I liked the line “We went from being castaways to being children of the world’s greatest navigators.”
It really was an amazing feat, finding Hawaii. I wonder how many times they looked for land farther East or North.
RE: Crowds welcome Hokulea home to Oahu - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 06-18-2017
world’s greatest navigators
With a good navigator, Polynesian crews could set sail for the unknown, and when necessary find their way back again. Like any explorer in uncharted territory; the Vikings, Columbus, Lewis & Clark, adventurers at both poles. Not to mention the first man and woman to walk out of Africa.
RE: Crowds welcome Hokulea home to Oahu - SBH - 06-18-2017
I just got to board Hokulea and take a tour, so exciting!
RE: Crowds welcome Hokulea home to Oahu - Eric1600 - 06-18-2017
Hokulea will be coming to Hilo too. Oahu sort of stole Big Island's thunder as the Crew and Captain felt that Hilo was their true departure point and they wanted to return here first, but you know, Oahu and all....
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUScj66biII
* see 1:50 where Nainoa Thompson starts talking to Keaukaha community and Keahi Warfield to share his vision
* at 16:00 - "This is a special day, June 9th, that we had set to start this part of Hokulea's journey of its legacy. So that physically, the world wide voyage, does begin here [Hilo]." He tells how he always felt a strong tie in his weakest moments to the Big Island and that it remained with him to give him strength back in the '70's during the first voyage.
The 5 part series is quite interesting and talks about the 7 sister ships that the dutch benefactor, Dieter Paulmann, had built, which includes the Hikianalia. See http://okeanos-foundation.org/team/ for more about Dieter and his donated Polynesian boats.
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h4dQBLr6zI
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=furibQoKviA
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI-7lGm0gjY
Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy0AFb03bp8
RE: Crowds welcome Hokulea home to Oahu - MarkP - 06-18-2017
In a former life I worked for an engineering firm in Honolulu. On Fridays I would attend the Engineers and Architects of Hawaii luncheon meetings. We took turns arranging speakers to come and talk to the group. Somebody got Nainoa Thompson to come. The question was raised as to whether you could go out so far and if you found nothing, turn around and make it back. Nainoa looked a little less cheerful and said he figured a lot of people got lost. So no, getting back was not a slam dunk. In a way it makes their accomplishments even more impressive. On the other hand we don't know what was waiting back at home. Many such voyages were probably made out of necessity, fleeing a situation that one couldn't or wouldn't go back to.