Hawaiian Watershots

The catamaran Illusion dropping in on a monster wave at the channel to Ala Wai Boat Harbor

Among many great pics at Hawaiian Watershots:
http://hawaiianwatershots.com/

Hokulea arriving at Palmyra

Hokulea's blog here:

http://pvshawaii.squarespace.com/

Ku Holo Mau - the 2007 tribute voyage to Satawal

Hokule'a's crab-claw sails

Max and Keoni looking for Satawal

Satawal itself - a tiny atoll

Interior of canoe house on Satawal

Found at the Polynesian Voyaging Society website - an article on the 2007 tribute voyage of the Hokule'a and the Alingano Maisu to honor Mau:

http://www.samlow.com/sail-nav/satawal2007.htm

Reef fish off Ulithy

Reef fish speared off Fedraey, Ulithi

Simion Hokule'a

On 26 January 2009, two traditional canoes set sail from Yap, bound for Palau. The main purpose of the voyage, sponsored by the Traditional Navigation Society of Yap, was to recreate the sailing expeditions to Palau the Yapese made in the 16th-century to quarry stone money. The "Mathaw Maraw" was guided by Master Builder and traditional navigator, Chief Bruno Tharngan of Maap, while the 30-year-old "Simion Hokule'a," built by Master Navigator Mau Piailug and his brother on Satawal, was guided by Master Navigator Ali Haleyalur of Lamotrek. There were 17 crewmen on the two vessels: 8 on the "Mathaw Maram" and 9 on the "Hokule'a." [This information comes from a news release issued by Sebastian F. Tamagken, Chief of Media and Protocol for the Yap State Goverment.] The canoes arrived safely in Palau on 29 January. (From Raymond Thomas Martin)

- from the Polynesian Voyaging Society blog

Canoe voyaging

On-line resources relating to canoe voyaging - particularly in Hokule'a - from the Polynesian Voyaging Society:
http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/edresources.html

Chuukese canoe on the beach

A Semi-Traditional Canoe, outside the hotel on Moen, Chuuk, FSM. Photographed in 1992.(Photograph © 1989-2001 Dirk HR Spennemann)

Closeup of outrigger float attachment.

Pacific Studies

Above: PBY Catalina in the Marshall Islands during WWII

"Europeans have long mythologised the sea, a perception which has found famous expression in John Masefield's 'Sea Fever'. Or else the oceans have been demonised, as in Nicholas Monsarrat's enduring novel of wartime, The Cruel Sea. Either way, the sea is conceptualised as being detached from, and separate to, the land — which in one sense it is. There is little of this dichotomy in Pacific Islands cultures where, rather, the nexus between sea and land is to the forefront. In what is likely to be a seminal work, Paul D'Arcy's The People of the Sea explores these relationships within the framework of environmental history. The People of the Sea has been the subject of a book review forum in another journal (see footnote 25), and we are gratified to host another such critical forum. The Editorial Board of The Journal of Pacific History warmly thanks the three contributors for producing their searching critiques on time and to length, and the author for his considered response."

- Doug Munro, at Informaworld, Journal of Pacific History

Follow this link for more at:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713435447
And here, another related link:
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPacific/Pac-Jrnl-Bibliography.html

And here - Digital Micronesia

http://marshall.csu.edu.au/

Canoe houses with canoes on Satawal

Canoe, canoe house, and children

The Navigators - Pathfinders of the Pacific

Over 1,000 years ago, the islands of Polynesia were explored and settled by navigators who used only the waves, the stars, and the flights of birds for guidance. In hand-built, double-hulled canoes sixty feet long, the ancestors of today's Polynesians sailed across a vast ocean area, larger than Europe and North America combined.
To explore this ancient navigational heritage, anthropologist/filmmaker Sanford Low visited the tiny coral atoll of Satawal in Micronesia's remote Caroline Islands. The Navigators reveals the subtleties of this sea science, transmitted in part through a ceremony known as "unfolding the mat," in which 32 lumps of coral are arranged in a circle to represent the points of the "star compass." To master the lore of navigation was to attain great status in traditional Micronesian society.
- A film by Sanford Low, distributed by Documentary Educational Resources

Plumeria tree & houses