Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 27, Number 5, 1 May 2010 — E Ala comes home to Pōkaʻi Bay [ARTICLE]

E Ala comes home to Pōkaʻi Bay

The voyaging eanoe E Ala sailed into Pōka'I Bay on April 22, returning to its permanent home on the Leeward coast of O'ahu. The eanoe departed on a three-day voyage from the Marine Education and Training Center on Sand Island with two other voyaging canoes, the Hōkūle'a and the Kama'uheuheu. After being leased by the Polynesian Voyaging Society for educational purposes, the E Ala returned to where it was originally built and will remain in Wai'anae as a floating classroom for crew members and high school students to learn about life on a voyaging eanoe. The Wai'anae Hawaiian Civic Club, who built the eanoe in 1981, has plans to fundraise to build a hale for the vessel. ■