Hōkūleʻa sails to Tahiti

The Polynesian Voyaging Society built Hōkūleʻa, a double-hulled canoe, to test whether Polynesians had settled the Pacific by deliberate navigation. In 1976 the Micronesian master navigator Mau Piailug guided it from Honolua Bay on Maui to Papeʻete without instruments, reading stars, swells and birds. The voyage revived traditional wayfinding across Polynesia and became a symbol of the Hawaiian Renaissance.