The Hōkūle‘a — a twin-hulled, wind-powered canoe that was carved 50 years ago and has embarked on 14 voyages since — will start a 40,000-mile trip around the globe from Juneau this month.
A four-year voyage across the world starts in Juneau this month.
Captain Vancouver, when he visited the Hawaiian Islands, wrote in his logbook that he measured a canoe that was 108 feet long on the island of Kauai, and it is twice the length of our canoe Hōkūle‘a. And it was made out of, in his writing, made out of the finest pine. Pine is not native to the Hawaiian Islands.
That was a profoundly important statement as to why we’re there now. It’s about celebration of family. The ability to take the trees required the Alaskans and Hawaiians and people in Hawaii come together, and they start replanting our forest. So the Alaskans came to Hawaii, and for one weekend, we planted 80,000 koa trees, fenced it off to keep the pigs and the cattle out. And in that forest, it’s just a promise, right? We made a promise.
She is powered by the wind solely. We have no engines. But what’s most unique about this canoe, it carries the students of the earth. And what it does, it allows us to go into nature, and try to find our way by just being a part of nature.
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