Sentences with phrase «hulled sailing canoes»
On the islands, outrigger canoe paddling is more than an enormously popular sport — it's a culturally significant link to the extraordinary seafaring traditions of Hawai`i's first people, who came to the islands aboard double - hulled sailing canoes that they paddled across some 2,000 miles of uncharted ocean using only the stars and flight patterns of birds to... Continue»
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On the islands, outrigger canoe paddling is more than an enormously popular sport — it's a culturally significant link to the extraordinary seafaring traditions of Hawai`i's first people, who came to the islands aboard double - hulled sailing canoes that they paddled across some 2,000 miles of uncharted ocean using only the stars and flight patterns of birds to guide them.
Hawai`i's first settlers arrived aboard DOUBLE - HULLED SAILING CANOES that they paddled across 2,000 miles of uncharted ocean using... Continue»
The ancient Polynesians traveled among thousands of tiny islands and atolls across the Pacific in double - hulled sailing canoes.
Not exact matches
A tepukei looks like an outrigger canoe with a crab claw sail, and is in fact a very sophisticated ocean - going sailing ship, belonging to the proa (two hulls of different size) type.
In 1976, under the teachings of Micronesian master navigator Mau Piailug, the Polynesian Voyaging Society built and set sail the Hōkūleʻa, a performance accurate Polynesian double - hulled voyaging canoe, thus launching a new era of Hawaiian Renaissance and Pacific cultural revival.