Following their historic arrival in Papeʻetē on June 28, Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia hosted dozens of schoolchildren, families, and community members aboard the canoes. This week, the crew of both canoes ...

Hōkūleʻa arrived in Papeʻetē in late June. The arrival marks 49 years since Hōkūleʻa made its first historic voyage to Tahiti ...

LIVE: The Polynesian voyaging canoe Hokulea is set to arrive at Papeete today. The crew recently made landfall at Raietea.

That vessel – a double-hulled sailing canoe called Hokulea, named after the Hawaiian word for the star Arcturus – would later inspire Disney’s Moana and spark a revival of Polynesian ...

That vessel — a double-hulled sailing canoe called the Hokulea, after the Hawaiian name for the star Arcturus — would even influence the Disney blockbuster "Moana" decades later.