Updated at 7:42 p.m., Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Voyaging canoes still plan dawn departure
Advertiser Staff
The voyaging canoes Hokule'a and Alingano Maisu are still aiming for a dawn departure from Kawaihae tomorrow, but may forgo stopping at Kaho'olawe to avoid the strong winds and seas in the 'Alenuihaha Channel.The channel winds were expected to exceed 30 mph, said mission spokeswoman Kathy Thompson.
Thompson said the canoes' leadership has consulted with the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission and the Protect Kaho'olawe 'Ohana and received their agreement that the Kaho'olawe stop can be bypassed, and that "they have done the appropriate protocol and ceremony to open the path for us to go to Micronesia."
The canoes are headed for Majuro in the Marshall Islands on their way to deliver Alingano Maisu as a gift to navigation teacher Mau Piailug.
