Note to our member in Samoa.
The Hokule'a is coming to you. I hope you get a chance to visit her.
Polynesian culture revived.
Actually, it came in earlier this week.
I get all grumbly because it's not really all that traditional, but the kids have fun on it though, and in the end, that's all that really counts.
That being said, if it doesn't pour today, we have a putt planned over to Alega Beach, and will be going past it. If it's not on the main wharf (secured these days), we may be able to get some pics for you.
Michaelh,
Interesting. Did not know there was a sidecar guy in Pago Pago?
That place is hell on vehicle finish - it oughta be a test location for paint and chrome finish longevity...
I lived there from 2001-2008, and get back about twice a year for design work at LBJ. Should be heading there sometime in the next quarter.
Drop me an email/pm with some details - love to have lunch with you at the old yacht club...
Regards,
Mitch
Will do. Armed with your name and place of employment, I'm pretty sure we know each other.
They had to build her with plywood and fiberglass. We have no more Koa tees big enough available.
Its the culture thing that impresses me, the sailing and making accurate landfall without instruments.
Phelonius - 8/24/2014 9:14 AM
They had to build her with plywood and fiberglass. We have no more Koa tees big enough available.
Its the culture thing that impresses me, the sailing and making accurate landfall without instruments.
Here you go, we had a nice putt on the rig today. That's the S/v 'Ethan Roberts' behind her; a sail training vessel.
Understand on the navigation, so many of the arts (siapo, carving, oratory, tatu fa'asamoa, etc.) are dying. Understand also that she's loaded with solar panels and an INMARSAT, and I sailed all over the Pacific without electrics, engine, or fanfare on a long in the tooth ('Made in Occupied Japan') double planked 28' ketch using a sextant and other non-electric techniques.
Ah, to be young again! 🙂
I would really like to see the Maoris do the same with their giant voyaging doubles. They were sometimes as much as 100 feet long made with planks sewn together.
There is archeological evidence that they colonized Easter Island (Rapa Nui ) and the channel islands off the southern California coast. The vessels were made the same way in both places and the
word for canoe is the same in both places as well as other words. The clincher was in the bones. The skulls were distinctly polynesian on the California islands.
They apparently did not like cold, there is no evidence of them farther north.
