"The making of the canoe Alingano Maisu is a remarkable piece of the Hawaiian canoe voyaging story. The vessel, with twin 54-foot hulls and an overall length of about 56 feet, has been built as a gift. It represents an amazing amount of work to thank a Micronesian man named Mau Piailug for his own gift of non-instrument navigation to the people of Hawai'i."

"The direction and the majority of the work was done by the family of the voyaging canoe Makali'i, an association called Na Kalai Wa'a Moku o Hawai'i. But there are parts of the canoe that are truly a statewide gesture. Na Kalai Wa'a stalwart Pomai Bertelmann said the hulls came from the canoe Hokualaka'i, and were built by Jay Dowsett; the steering sweep was contributed by the Friends of Hokule'a and Hawai'iloa; the canoe Iosepa's clan gave the boom, engine and equipment; Kaua'i's Namahoe project contributed kauila wood for the mast step; and vast amounts of labor were volunteered by Maui's Mo'okiha project as well as folks from across the state as well as from the Mainland, Tahiti and New Zealand."

From the blog of Jan Tenbruggencate, Jan. 14, 2007: http://blogs.honoluluadvertiser.com/index.php?blog=20 .