The canoes left Hawai'i seven weeks ago, navigating without modern instruments, with individual navigators acting as lead navigators for different legs. They viewed or made accurate landfall at Johnston Atoll, Majuro, Pohnpei, Chuuk, Pulap and finally, Satawal, which is the goal of the first portion of the voyage.

Here, the Hawaiian voyaging community will present as a gift the double-hulled voyaging canoe Alingano Maisu to Micronesian master navigator Mau Piailug—in thanks for his gift to Hawaiians of the knowledge of how to navigate without instruments.

The canoes are to stay until Sunday. As part of the ceremony of their visit, five Hawai'i navigators and Piailug's son, Sesario Sewralur, who sailed aboard Alingano Maisu, will be honored as members of Satawal's society of navigators.