In less than three weeks, Hokulea and Hikinalia will set sail on the international portion of their voyage around the world, navigated without instruments.
the bravery and confidence required to make such massive journeys like this, trusting your lives in your ability to navigate, is so incredible. these are some of the highest achievements in human history, I think.
I am great grandson of South sea Islanders Navigators my late grandfather and my late grandmother would tell me stories of around South Pacific and And would build the large Ocean going Catamarans and study the waves and the stars at night.
I often wondered how these people's ancestors managed to navigate, with those flimsy canoes they sailed on, out middle of nowhere, out in this vast deserted ocean...
Weren't flimsy at all. They had different designs, including very large dugouts, lashed and caulked rafts, even twin canoes catamaran style with a center platform on which they carried lived animals even growing plants for their journeys. Plus the Pacific doesn't have hurricanes like the American Atlantic
