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How Did Polynesians Populate The Pacific Ocean?
![[Water Color of first Hawaiians by Joseph Feher]](images/first_hawaiians.jpg) About 2,000 years ago, Polynesians populated all the habitable
islands from Hawaii, 5,000 miles south to New Zealand and from Tonga, 5,000 miles
east to Easter Island. Dugout canoes with outriggers were the vessels used for
these daring voyages. Today, people are still traveling between islands in
dugout canoes. During 1970 I sailed a 36-foot dugout canoe with outriggers from
Panama 5,000 miles to Hawaii. During 1989, an Argentina man sailed an open
18-foot dugout canoe from Panama, 10,000 miles to the Philippines.
The attached stories are about my experiences at attempts and
success, to cross the Pacific Ocean in a dugout canoe.
The Liki Tiki Project
Sailing Dugout Canoes Across The Pacific Ocean
- The Challenge
- Rediscovering the lost art of Polynesian ocean voyages.
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- Adventures in Tahiti
- Building Liki Tiki, a Polynesian double hull boat.
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 Voyage of
Liki Tiki Too
- Sailing a dugout canoe 5,000 miles from Panama to Hawaii.
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Polynesian Navigation
- My discovery of comfort zone navigation.
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- Polynesian Boat Design
- Double hull boats were not ocean voyagers. Single hull with
outriggers can cross oceans.
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- Cruising in Dugout Canoes Today
- In the Tropic Zones of the world, the dugout canoe is the most popular form
of water transportation. With and ax and adz, one man can fall a tree, carve a
canoe in a few days. Add outrigger and sail, that person will have
transportation built from the jungle that cost him nothing. In the Tropics, this
form of transportation has been standard through all of history.
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- Dugout Design and Construction
- At sea, size is not a safety factor, it is a comfort factor. Almost any boat can
be safe at sea if you know its limits.
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- Where to Start
- Central America is loaded with dugout canoes. For about $100, it is
your choice for a 30-foot boat . Jungle rivers that connect to a single
road, are the most likely locations to look. River farmers bring their
produce to market by this route. In small villages, people are very
friendly. If you tell them what
you are doing, the whole village will help you.
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