The eight canoes will end their epic voyage back in Hawaii in mid-May,
sailing directly from the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, which
scholars believe were the source of the first voyages to Hawaii 1,800
years ago. The languages, body ornaments and tools of Hawaii and the
Marquesas are similar.
The two canoes that left Hilo Bay Saturday were the newly built
Hawai'iloa and the veteran Hokule'a.