Projects mentioned in this story: University of Hawai‘i Office of Indigenous Innovation

From University of Hawai‘i News:

The Polynesian Voyaging Society’s (PVS) two traditional Polynesian canoes returned to O‘ahu on May 27, after a two-week training voyage to prepare for its 2022 Moananuiākea Voyage, a circumnavigation of the Pacific. Hikianalia arrived at the University of Hawaiʻi Marine Education Training Center at Sand Island at 4:30 a.m. followed by Hōkūle‘a at 5:30 a.m.

The original sail plan was for the crew to sail to the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (the doldrums), located approximately 5 degrees north of the equator. The canoes, however, were delayed for nine days off Lahaina, Maui due to dangerous conditions in the Alenuihaha Channel. Once the weather cleared and the canoes were able to cross the Alenuihaha Channel, which is considered the second roughest channel in the world, and head to Keauhou on Hawaiʻi Island. From Keauhou, they sailed to Kalae (South Point) and then into Moananuiākea, about 100 nautical miles south of Hawai‘i Island.

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