HONOLULU: Polynesian voyaging canoes which left Hawaii last month on a
research mission arrived ahead of schedule in Tahiti last Saturday
(March 4), completing in less than 21 days the first leg of a
three-month, 6,000-mile Pacific journey without navigational
instruments.
The Hawai'iloa and Hokule'a left Hawaii on February 11, navigating the
way the ancient Polynesians did - by dead-reckoning and noting winds,
ocean swells and the positions of the sun, moon and stars.
The
