Polynesian Voyaging Society
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The Polynesian Voyaging Society is a non-profit research and educational corporation based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. PVS was established to research and perpetuate traditional Polynesian voyaging methods.
The Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokuleʻa, arrives off Kailua Beach on May 1, 2005.
Hokuleʻa off the coast of Honolulu, January 2009
Nainoa Thompson
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Charles Nainoa Thompson is an American navigator and the president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. He is the first native Hawaiian to practice traditional Polynesian navigational methods since the
Nainoa Thompson (center) with actor Jason Scott Lee (left) and artist Layne Luna (right). Photo taken in 2003 at Hilo, Hawaiʻi.