Talk:Hokulea
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[edit] Kama Hele
Kama Hele is very very important and interesting about Hokule'a. Hokule'a had been towed from Okinawa to Muroto(Kochi prefecture) by Kama Hele. Moreover, Nainoa stressed about importance of escoat boat at everywhere, everytime(And he speaks too long). He said again and again that without Kama Hele, Hokule'a can't go anywhere. You can read about how he and PVS thinks about importance of escoat boat at Ben Finney's "Sailing in the wake of Ancestors" (University of Hawaii Press). Don't you know that Kama Hele had designed only for Hokule'a by Alex Jakubenko? Alex is the captain of Ishka, the escoat boat of Hokule'a for 1980 Tahiti voyage (see Will Kyselka's "An Ocean in Mind",University of Hawaii Press ). Alex felt it's very important to make a modern escoat boat only for Hokule'a. Japanese people also felt that Kama Hele is the integral part of the canoe and volunteered to sail it back to Hawai'i in July-August 2007. Anyway, you should better talk with Nainoa and ask him "Is Kama Hele important or interesting in Polynesian Voyaging and Hokule'a?". I can imagine that he replies immediately that "Yes! Kama Hele is very important for Hokule'a". --Uniontour (talk) 16:16, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
- Adding references. Stuart Holmes Coleman "Eddie Would Go: The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero "(Bess Press, 2002), Ben Finney et al "Voyage of rediscovery"(University of California Press, 1994). Have you read them? If you read them, You can understand why escoat boat is very important for Hokule'a. --Uniontour (talk) 16:39, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
