Kon Tiki Sails Again...2005 (Update... Delayed Due To Tidal Wave) - General Tiki

C christiki295 Member LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is Joined: Apr 09, 2003 Posts: 3837	C christiki295 Posted posted on Tue, Sep 7, 2004 3:37 PM The one question remains: Will the Kon-Tiki have to be towed past the coastline currents, like last time, or will it be able to sail directly from the coastline, as the ancient mariners would have done? Regardless, the Kon Tiki is doning what the Hokule'a of Hawaii has done. Since 1975, Polynesian Voyaging Society has built and launched two replicas of ancient canoes--1. Hokule'a and Hawai'iloa--and completed six voyages to the South Pacific to retrace migration routes and recover traditional canoe-building and wayfinding (non-instrument navigation) arts http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/

The one question remains: Will the Kon-Tiki have to be towed past the coastline currents, like last time, or will it be able to sail directly from the coastline, as the ancient mariners would have done?

Regardless, the Kon Tiki is doning what the Hokule'a of Hawaii has done.

Since 1975, Polynesian Voyaging Society has built and launched two replicas of ancient canoes--1. Hokule'a and Hawai'iloa--and completed six voyages to the South Pacific to retrace migration routes and recover traditional canoe-building and wayfinding (non-instrument navigation) arts
http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/

Post #112844 by christiki295 on Tue, Sep 7, 2004 3:37 PM