ohana friends, aloha

for those tracking Maizu canoe, it arrived yesterday in Ngulu (between yap and palau) safely (we have a large Typhoon out her right now , typhoon Rammasun, and it is very sloppy , gnarly weather..) . I gave sessario and crew the weather over HF this morning and advised them to hang in the Ngulu lagoon until tomorrow ....they had no word on the typhoon...lucky boys they got to a radio...they are headed back to yap

In palau , they fixed up the railings and did some repairs, good to see the canoe at sea...

enjoy the weekend/bb

"To Honor Mau," a book by crew member and Star Bulletin writer Gary T. Kubota, with Kaimana Barcarse (Hawaiian translation) and James Hadde (photos) on Hokule'a's journey to Micronesia has been published by Pacific Renaissance Press. For information contact the press at PacificRenaissancePress@hotmail.com. A review of the book by Sky Barnhart appeared in the Maui Weekly on March 18, 2008.

Aloha,

The launch of Hokule`a on April 8 concluded dry dock. Many, many thank you’s to all our wonderful volunteers who gave up weekends and evenings to kokua Hokule`a dry dock. Everyone did an awesome job!!
She is now in the water and will begin coastal sails, including training of our captains, navigators and crew.

Ramona

Dry dock is going very well. We have lots of participation from the schools and community and we appreciate it very much!! The excitement of voyaging is just as strong as it’s ever been. We continue to encourage everyone to come out to get the canoe ready for the State Wide Sail and more voyaging.

The dry dock schedule is:

Wednesday’s 6 – 9 pm
Saturday’s 9:30 am – 4 pm.

Bruce Blankenfeld, Coordinator

PVS admininstraton office will be moving to METC on February 27, 2008. Our new address will be:

Polynesian Voyaging Society
10 Sand Island Parkway
Honolulu, HI 96819

Our new phone number after February 27 will be (808) 842-1101 and (808) 842-1112 (fax).