Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 4, 1 April 2007 — Canoe classes [ARTICLE]

Canoe classes

This month, Bishop Museum is offering a two-day program on traditional Hawaiian and Polynesian open-oeean voyaging. In the first part of the program, anthropologist Ben Finney will lecture on the movement to revive traditional voyaging practices of Polynesia. As one of the founders of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Finney helped sparked this revival by sharing in the design and construction of the double-hulled Hawaiian voyaging eanoe Hōkūle'a and, in 1976, participating as a crewmember on the

canoe's maiden voyage to Tahiti without the use of modern navigational instruments. The second portion of the program will feature Bobby Puakea discussing how Hawaiian voyaging canoes, both wooden and fiberglass, are made. Puakea is a noted Hawaiian eanoe maker and repairer and is the founder of the Puakea Foundation, whieh preserves and perpetuates the art and history of Pacific island eanoe building. Enrolhnent for both programs is limited. The first portion will be held on April 12, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Atherton Hālau, Bishop Museum. General Admission fee is $5. The second section will be held on April 14, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the eanoe hale at He'eia State Park. The fee will be $10. For more infonnation or to reserve and purchase seats in advance, eall 848-4172 or email lyssa. omori@bishopmuseum.org.