Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 30, Number 6, 1 June 2013 — WORLDWIDE VOYAGE TO SET SAIL AROUND ISLANDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORLDWIDE VOYAGE TO SET SAIL AROUND ISLANDS

By Heidi Kai Guth Hōkūle'a - Hawai'i's eanoe - has already sailed the equivalent of 5Vi times around the world. Now, she, her crews and sister voyaging eanoe, Hikianalia, will actually circumnavigate "Island Earth" for the first time. In June, the two wa'a kaulua (double-hulled voyaging canoes) will begin the "Mālama Hawai'i" portion of the Worldwide Voyage, whieh will sail around the Islands before leaving Hawaiian waters in early May 2014. "Mau told us a long time ago, we have to remember to be pa'a at home before we go anywhere else," said master navigator Chadd 'Onohi Paishon, explaining the voyaging community's kuleana to Hawai'i. "The message needs to be rooted at home." "Mālama Hawai'i is the collective work of everyone at home who has been doing good work for their communities," said Bruce Blankenfeld, master navigator and voyaging director for the Polynesian Voyaging Society. "We need to open our eyes to what is going on at home, celebrate it and carry it around the world. In the end, the vision of Mālama Hawai'i is that we are an integral part of the Earth." Billy Richards agreed. The president of 'Ohana Wa'a and a 1976 Hōkūle'a crewmember said: "We are unahle to voyage without our community. For the 26 people who voyage (at any one time on both canoes), there are hundreds of thousands of people behind them, and we embrace them. We are providing a platform for people to eome on, be a part of it and enrich us as mueh as the voyage will enrich everybody." The Polynesian Voyaging Society committed to the Mālama Honua ("Care for the Earth") Worldwide Voyage in 2008, when the voyaging

eanoe family - 'Ohana Wa'a - and PVS's board of directors voted to support the project. Through it, PVS hopes to create and nurture relationships with people and groups worldwide that share values of caring for people, oceans and islands, including Island Earth, while also honoring Native Hawaiian heritage and culture. Crewmembers will document and share the voyage in a partnership with Native Hawaiian-owned 'Ōiwi TV. Stories

will include people met and their inspiring stories of adaptation and preservation of culture and natural resources, educational opportunities, scientific and cultural data collected from Hōkūle'a and Hikianalia, crew experiences, lesson plans, and oeean and land exploration. Everyone will be invited on board via the third wa'a, the website www.hokulea.org. Since 2008, PVS has been training and preparing for this voyage. Since then, Hōkūle'a has sailed more than 17,000 nauheal miles, for crew and leadership training. At the same time, PVS provided at least 18,000 educational opportunities to Hawai'i's communities and schoolchildren. FromSeptember 2010 through March 2012, more than 1,000 community volunteers donated approximately 26,500 hours to completely take apart and restore Hōkūle'a, whieh is now lighter, stronger and safer than ever. PVS reintroduced Hōkūle'a to SEE V0YAGE ON PAGE 25

Mālama Hawai'i Here is the projected port list forthe Worldwide Voyage's first leg, whieh will sail around the archipelago. All dates and some locations are subject to change due to weather, safety and port requirements. Please eheek website for regular scheduling and other updates, www.hokulea.org. > Early June: Kualoa/Hakipu'u, O'ahu, considered Hōkūle'a's one hānau, site of its original launeh in 1975; Hilo, Hawai'i > Mid-June: Kalae, Hawai'i > Mid-/late June: Mā'alaea (pending), Maui > Late June: Lahaina (pending), Maui > Early July: Kealaikahiki, Kaho'olawe; Mānele (pending), Lāna'i > Mid-July: Kaunakakai (pending), Moloka'i > Mid-July to mid-August: Kawaihae, Miloli'i, Kealakekua/Hōnaunau and Keauhou, Hawai'i > Mid-August: Hāna and Honolua, Maui; Kalaupapa (pending), Moloka'i > Mid-/late August: Kaunakakai, Moloka'i > Late August: Waimānalo, Kailua, Moku o Lo'e and Kualoa/Hakipu'u, O'ahu > Early September: Kahana, Lā'ie and Hale'iwa, O'ahu > Mid-September: Hanalei, Kaua'i > Mid-/late September: Nihoa island (pending); Ni'ihau island (pending); Nāwiliwili, Kaua'i > Late September: Wai'anae, O'ahu > Early October: Ko'olina, O'ahu > Mid-October: Maunalua and Marine Education Training Center, O'ahu

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Hōkūle'a, pictured, and her sister voyaging eanoe, Hikianalia, will launeh the Worldwide Voyage with a yearlong sail around the lslands. - Courtesy: Ka'iulani Murphy

The wa'a kaulua Hikianalia at sunset in October 2012 as it left for Hawai'i from Auckland, Aotearoa, where it was built. Hikianalia, whieh will sail in the Worldwide Voyage, is 72 feet long and 23 feet wide, and has electric engines that are powered by photovoltaic panels. - Courtesy: Kaleomanuiwa Wong

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Hawai'i last summer, connecting with communities, environments and ehildren in a five-month voyage. Then, in September 2012, Hikianalia was launched in Auckland, Aotearoa, as Hōkūle'a's sister wa'a. Named for Hōkūle'a's sister star, both of whieh rise together in Hawai'i's night sky, Hikianalia was sailed home to Hawai'i in October and November 20 12 by two sets of crewmembers. One crew sailed her from Auckland to Pape'ete, Tahiti, and the next sailed from Pape'ete to Hilo. Hōkūle'a and Hikianalia act as floating classrooms, bridging culture, tradition and indigenous knowledge with modern technology. Hōkūle'a continues to be traditionally navigated, using ancestral knowledge of star and weather patterns, oeean movement, marine life and other signs of nature. Hikianalia is high-tech and eco-friendly, powered by winddriven sails and the sun. Photovoltaic panels fuel batteries that charge electric motors, computers and a satellite dish that will relay video and print stories back to Hawai'i and the world. As the two wa'a kaulua sail among Hawai'i's communities this year, crewmembers will continue training, engage in service projects, connect with classrooms and communities, and ask Hawai'i's people what their hopes are

for the Worldwide Voyage. The wa'a will return to Hawai'i and do another sail throughout the archipelago in 2017, and crewmembers and leadership hope that Hawai'i will weleome the wa'a back to a plaee changed positively by the voyage. Nainoa Thompson, master navigator and PVS president, said that he envisions the wa'a retuming to a Hawai'i "that has a elean and healthy environment, strong and kind families, education that is in front of our issues instead of behind

them, and the cultural kindness that already defines our communities."B

Heidi Kai Guth, a former generaī counseī and Papahānaumokuākea manager at OHA, is a crewmember and chief operating officer with the Polynesian Voyaging Soci.ety. She hopes to be sailing aboard either vessel during any of the legs ofthe Worldwide Voyage as one of more than 300 crewmembers who may be i.nvited to sai.l between ports.

Crewmembers on Hōkūle'a and Hikianalia hope to bring thousands of children on board both wa'a this summer during the Mālama Hawai'i portion of the Worldwide Voyage. Last year, crewmembers Matt Yamashita of Moloka'i, left, and Kaina Holomalia of O'ahu showed the keiki of Moloka'i around Hōkūle'a. - Courtesy: Ka'iulani Murphy