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The
Voyage
The first voyage of the Hokule`a from Hawai`i to Tahiti and back took
place in 1976, as part of the Bicentenniel Celebration of American
Independence. The official purpose of the voyage was to show that tnhe
two-way voyages celebrated in Hawaiian oral traditios could be done in a
replica of an ancient voyaging canoe navigated without non-instruments.
Other accounts of the 1976 voyage to Tahiti can be found in Ben Finney's
Hokule'a: The Way to
Tahiti (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1979) and in David Lewis We, the
Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific, 2nd Edition
(Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai'i Press, 1994, pp. 312-341). For a 59-minute
video on Mau Piailug, Polynesian navigation and migrations, and the first
voyage of Hokule'a, see "The Navigators: Pathfinders of the
Pacific".
CREW MEMBERS: HAWAI`I-TAHITI, 1976--Mau Piailug-Navigator, Clifford Ah
Mow, Shorty Bertelmann, Ben Finney,
Tommy Holmes, Sam Kalalau,
Boogie Kalama,
Kawika Kapahulehua,
Buffalo Keaulana, John
Kruse, Dukie Kauhulu, David
Lewis, Dave Lyman,
Billy Richards, Rodo
Williams
CREW MEMBERS: TAHITI-HAWAI`I, 1976--Snake Ah Hee, Andy Espirto, Kawika
Kapahulehua, Mel Kinney, Kainoa Lee,
Kimo Lyman,
Gordon Pi`ianai`a,
Leonard
Puputauiki,Penny
Rawlins, Keani Reiner, Nainoa
Thompson, Maka`ala
Yates,
Ben Young
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