For weeks, they would live aboard boats made from wood and lashings ... Cook understood that Polynesian navigators could guide canoes across the Pacific over great distances.

Polynesian societies combined a strong authority structure based on genealogical ranking that was useful for mounting long expeditions and founding island colonies. The Voyaging Canoe View from ...

Canoe surfing, particularly aboard the outrigger style of boats, is one of the oldest forms ... here’s historian Matt Warshaw: “Ancient Polynesian form of wave-riding, still practiced in ...

The Polynesian voyaging canoe Hokulea will complete its three-year trip around the world and return to Hawaii June 17, where thousands are expected to greet the traditional double-hulled craft, ...

But Galax reassures me that the boat has never capsized ... church choir to mark the return to Polynesian traditions "Our ancestors all came here aboard canoes," says Matahi Tutavae.