Educational Outreach Tongatapu

Educational Outreach Tongatapu

“The kids’ favorite station when they come to the canoe is the canoe. I think we’ve always said, and we know from personal experience, that the canoe is the hook, the experience on the canoe is the hook,” said Hōkūleʻa crewmember Pomai Bertelmann. “The kalia I think...
From Father to Daughter

From Father to Daughter

“ʻO wau ʻo Kalā Baybayan, no Lahaina mai au. My connection to the canoe and to voyaging began from even before I was born. My father has been sailing from before when I was born. He fell in love with the canoe and so, from then as a little boy in high school, he kept...