The "Vaapiti" double-hulled canoe in the shallow waters off the coast of Moorea. Vaapiti/dpa-tmn Sailing is all about balance. I step over the narrow bow of the bug to take the outstretched hand of ...

The Hokule'a, a Hawaiian double-hulled sailing canoe, arrives back in American waters for the first time since 2014. The canoe relies only on sails for power and the wind and the stars for navigation.

2007-05-24 04:00:00 PDT Wailea, Hawaii-- So this is how the native Hawaiians did it. Thousands of years ago, when a band of Polynesian explorers discovered these lush and tropical islands, they did so ...

WAIMANALO (HawaiiNewsNow) - Not only is the Hawaiian Sailing Canoe Association’s race on for Sunday -- the group will also be able to store the canoes at Waimanalo Beach Park. The city Parks and ...

(WHTM) — It’s been said exploration is curiosity put into action. It was that very curiosity and ingenuity that brought the first Polynesians to hawaiʻI on canoes that ultimately disappeared. Fast ...

The recent visit to Hampton Roads by the Polynesian voyaging canoe Hokule’a was just one of myriad port calls during the vessel’s three-year, 54,000-mile circumnavigation of Earth. The story of how it ...

This is a story of regaining cultural identity and cultural integrity. A navigator led the way — Mau Piailug. A Guam visionary hopes to follow him back to a time when the people of the Marianas ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 07: Casey Eichfeld of United States competes during the Canoe Single (C1) Men Heats on Day 2 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Whitewater Stadium on August 7, 2016 ...

Kawika Kapahulehua, 76, the captain of the historic first voyage of the ocean-sailing canoe Hokulea, died Thursday at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, according to the Polynesian Voyaging Society.