WorldWide Voyage

Polynesian Voyaging Society's

Polynesian Voyaging Canoe Hōkūle‘a

Worldwide Voyage

Resources

● Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) Hōkūle‘a Hōkūle‘a & Hikianalia Navigation Worldwide Voyage

● Live Tracking Map

●● Full Size Map: shows port-of-call icon as tiny yellow squares, when hover over with cursor switched to pointing finger & then click, pops up info box showing port of call #, arrive/depart date, etc - when Hōkūle‘a is at the port the port-of-call icon is overlaid by a circular Hōkūle‘a icon which, when cursor-hovered/clicked, pops up an info box titled "Hokulea position report" & showing among items a line that reads "Distance to next port: ####.# km ( ###.# nm ) [city] - [country]", for example "Distance to next port: 1490.0 km ( 766.2 nm ) Cape Town - South Africa" (sample screenshot overview > detail); below map is additional detail data (Distances, Track Data, Planned Ports of Call, Maps, Google Earth)

●●● Google Earth: "View [Worldwide Voyage Tracking Map] map with Google Earth"

●● Sail Plan Port List, Map, Outreach Magazine: downloadable pdf's from PVS Google Drive Press Kit

Polynesian Voyaging Society Hōkūleʻa Worldwide Voyage Documentary

● The Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) Worldwide Voyage of Polynesian Voyaging Canoes Hōkūleʻa & her companion safety canoe Hikianalia. The entire voyage was essentially filmed live as it happened by Hawaiian television station ʻŌiwi Television founder & Pacific Culture documentary filmmaker Nāʻālehu, shooting, editing & satellite broadcasting from a compact television studio housed within the tiny cabin on Hikianalia, which canoe, on the last leg of the journey, split off from Hōkūleʻa (then headed home to Hawaii) & set off for California, pulling into & berthing at Half Moon Bay, where "Mainland Friends of" co-founder Cliff was able to visit & take a few photos (@ Hikianalia link below).

● The Worldwide Voyage documentary is available both as a 2 disc Blu-ray DVD, & as well a full version streaming over Vimeo.

●● DVD

●● Vimeo

●● Hikianalia

●● ʻŌiwi TV

●● PVS

Port Arrival Date

● For exact days & times of port arrival: See below "●●● UPDATE > (3d) Sample calculation"; also possibly check social media links for real time updates at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

●For Day: PVS > (menu) Worldwide Voyage > (item) Live Tracking Map > (page text) "Worldwide Voyage Tracking Map...To track Hikianalia, Hōkūle`a...click here (launches…) > Live Tracking Map > (scroll down to) "Jump to:... Planned Ports of Call > (Hōkūle‘a listed 1^st (Hikianalia listed 2^nd (after end of Hōkūle‘a entries where reads "-- Hikianalia -- ") in columns-&-row lines report

●● For current/upcoming destination ports: page down to where see, under 6th (rightmost) column labeled "port", either active links (to wiki) or plain text identifying port(s) in row line(s)

●● For arrival date at given port: locate desired port active link or plain text row line, then look to left of row line under 2^nd (from leftmost) column labeled "arrive", under which is the arrival date, for example (with arrival date shown in bold)…

Planned ports of call:

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

# arrive depart latitude longitude port

90 2015-10-19 2015-10-24 -33.87024 18.37316 Richards Bay - South Africa

91 2015-11-07 2015-12-21 -33.87024 18.37316 Cape Town - South Africa

-- Hikianalia --

144 2016-08-dd 2016-09-dd 37.82590 -122.39680 San Francisco, California - USA (Hikianalia)

●●● UPDATE: I submitted the query…"What's the recommended way to get exact day & time for when WWV Hōkūle‘a & Hikianalia make a port arrival, including how much earlier before arrival would you need to get there to catch either still out at sea with sails unfurled (as viewed thru binoculars if needed)?" to…

(1) "PVS Learning Center" > "Contact Learning Center" > "If you have any questions, please email our Learning Center team at education@pvshawaii.org"

(2) PVS > Ask the Crew

(3) PVS > Worldwide Voyage Tracking Map > "click here" > Live Tracking Map, where it reads "Comments, requests, suggestions? If you would like an automatically generated e-mail notification each time Hōkūleʻa gets underway or stops, send e-mail to: Michael - mchlshntn@gmail.com"

…&, combining info from the various replies was informed, from…

(1) & (2): "The simple answer is... There is no simple answer. We don't ever know what time or day the canoe will be arriving near or in a port. The dates we have are often for ceremonies that we try to plan for in advance, and they may or may not include the canoe sailing in. We also don't schedule arrival ceremonies for every port, since our first concern is for canoe safety rather than calendar…The tracking map and website are the surest ways to get up to date information on canoe movements"

(3a) "The GPS units on board the wa'a report about once every 16 minutes. My process wakes up at :00, :15, :30, and :45, checks for the presence of a new email and processes the data if there is new email, then uploads the maps to the servers. So, if you check the map at about :06, :21, :36, or :51 minutes after the hour you can get the most up-to-date data then you can predict the location of the wa'a...http://napali.org/pvs_wwvh/ same detail as http://napali.org/pvs_wwv/ but centered on Hikianalia...Catching the wa'a with the sails unfurled may be difficult if the wind is light and they are trying to keep to a schedule. (They tow a lot when they are behind.)…Durban is off the latest schedule, it is now Richards bay to Capetown. And even that may change…The best way is to be glued to the near real-time map a few days before arrival and estimate the movements based on data time and position...I will add you to the notification list this evening. (Same list for for wa'a.)"

(3b) "The schedule I received 2 days ago has these dates (no times) with a note that says the exact ports for the West Coast are not set (committed).

arr: 2015-11-07 dep: 2015-12-21 - Capetown

arr: 2016-07-29 dep: 2016-08-14 - San Francisco

I have not yet updated the map…I will try to remember to let you know of changes to the Capetown and San Francisco dates"

(3d) Sample calculation for South Africa depart Richards Bay arrive Cape Town: Once receive, from Worldwide Voyage Live Tracking Map Wrangler "Michael Shintani" <mchlshntn@gmail.com>, "an automatically generated e-mail notification each time Hōkūleʻa gets underway [Subject: Hokulea is underway (containing depart date & time in UTC, HST & Approximate-Local-Time)]", as for example the following typical such email…

"

Subject: Hokulea is underway. 2015-10-04T13:31UTC / 2015-10-04T03:31HST http://www.hokulea.c​om/track-the-voyage/

[body]

Hokulea is underway.

2015-10-04T13:31:16+0000 UTC

2015-10-04T03:31:16-1000 HST

2015-10-04T17:31:17+0400 Approximate-Local-Time

PVS webpage map

http://www.hokulea.com/track-the-voyage/

This is the map that is embedded in hokulea.com

http://www.napali.org/pvs_wwvm/

This is a full featured map with ports-of-call and clickable data points.

http://www.napali.org/pvs_wwv/

This map contains almost all the data.

http://www.napali.org/pvs_wwva/

This map is centered on Hikianalia.

http://www.napali.org/pvs_wwvh/

Please be aware that this notification of the departure and arrival of Hokulea is automatic and depends on the satellite data being transmitted to the mapping program. So there may be some reports that are not correct, but you should be able to tell by looking at the map. The intent is that you will be among the first to know when Hokulea departs and arrives at a port.

This notification program is not working as well as it should,There may be a few more erroneous messages as well as non-messages. :(

Mahalo for your interest in the Polynesian Voyaging Society's World Wide Voyage.

Michael

"

…then, for Richards Bay "depart" date & "Distance to next port...Cape Town", see Worldwide Voyage Live Tracking Map > Full Size Map showing Richards Bay, then locate tiny yellow square port-of-call icon (may need to zoom to over 500% to reveal square, often overlaid by (multiple) circular Hōkūle‘a icons), then hover cursor over yellow square port-of-call icon &, with cursor switched to pointing finger, then click for the pop-up info box showing "port of call#90…depart: 2015-10-24"; then next hover over & click the large circular Hōkūle‘a icon for the pop-up up info boxes titled "Hokulea position report" & showing "Distance to next port: 1490.0 km ( 766.2 nm ) Cape Town - South Africa" (sample screenshot overview & detail); then for further confirmatory verification, check below the map at Planned Ports of Call the entries for Richards Bay & Cape Town, where it currently (as of 10/22/15) reads…

# arrive depart latitude longitude port 90 2015-10-19 2015-10-24 -28.79416 32.07838 Richards Bay - South Africa91 2015-11-07 2015-12-21 -33.87024 18.37316 Cape Town - South Africa

…; then use the following calculations to get the closest-to-most-accurate time, on date in hours & minutes, of Hōkūle‘a's arrival in Cape Town (& at least 2 hrs before that to possibly catch sails unfurled)

● (1) Distance by sea: South Africa from Richards Bay to Cape Town = 766.2 nautical miles (nm)

● (2) Calculate Time at sea: According to the Severn boating page > Useful Formulas for Boat Owners (which notes "speed is in knots [k}, distance is in nautical miles [nm] and time is in minutes)" > section "To find how long it will take to travel a given distance…Time = Distance [nm] x 60 divided by Speed [k]". Therefore for Hōkūle‘a's average speeds of 6k & 6.5k: Time (hours/days at sea) = 766.2 nm x 60 divided by 6k - 6.5k = ~ 7662 - 7073 mins = ~ 128 - 118 hours =~ 5.3 - 4.9 days at sea

● (3) Time of arrival at port Cape Town: For closest-to-most-accurate time, once know Richards Bay depart date/time (from "Hokulea is underway" email), & hours/days at sea from previous step:

●● (a) Convert Richards Bay depart time (UTC) to Cape Town Standard Time (AM/PM): Using the Timbie...Get converter between Universal Time and specific time zone...UTC Conversion to Africa Timezones > South Africa > South Africa Time → Universal Time Conversion Chart, lookup the nearest value UTC (right side in green) & read the corresponding South Africa Standard Time (left side in blue) - the time in Cape Town & Richards Bay is the same, there is no time zone difference, as shown in the world map at WorldTimeZone > South Africa. For example, using the above sample "e-mail notification…Hokulea is underway…2015-10-04T13:31:16+0000 UTC", the chart line reads " 3:30 PM (15:30) South Africa Time = 1:30 PM (13:30) UTC"

●● (b) Use Time and Date > Date calculator: Add to or subtract from a date: To Richards Bay depart date & time (UTC) converted to South Africa Time, add Richards Bay to Cape Town Time at sea in hours, using the calculator. For example, using the same above sample "e-mail notification…Hokulea is underway…[date] 2015-10-04…T[ime]13:31:16+0000 UTC" [converted to] 3:30 PM (15:30) South Africa Time, into the Date calculator Start Date enter the Richards Bay depart date (2015-10-04), then below it click the link "Include a time" & enter the Richards Bay depart time (UTC) converted to South Africa Time (3:30 PM), then to the right of the time, in the "Add/subtract:" section, enter the Time at sea in hours for Hōkūle‘a's slow & fast speeds…

●●● starting with the slow speed (6k…= ~ 128…hours), then below that on the left side click the green button "Calculate new date", then below the button review the results, the last line of which, titled "Result", is the slow speed arrival date in Cape Town…

"

From Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 3:30:00 PM

Added 128 hours

Normalized to 5 days, 8 hours

Result: Friday, October 9, 2015 at 11:30:00 PM

"

… as shown on the Date calculator filled out for slow speed

●●● continuing with the fast speed (6.5k…= ~ 118…hours), in the "Add/subtract:" section, enter the fast Time at sea in hours, then below that on the left side click the green button "Calculate new date", then below the button review the results, the last line of which, titled "Result", is the fast speed arrival date in Cape Town…

"

From Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 3:30:00 PM

Added 118 hours

Normalized to 4 days, 22 hours

Result: Friday, October 9, 2015 at 1:30:00 PM

"

… as shown on the Date calculator filled out for fast speed

● (4) Time to arrive at port Cape Town early enough to possibly catch Hōkūle‘a still out at sea with sails unfurled (binoculars recommended): Arrive at least 1-2 hours before ETA of step (3)

Connect

● Newsletter "Worldwide Voyage: Weekly Update" email Q&A Learning Center team email

● Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ Google+ Community: 1^st 3 may help for exact days/times of port arrival

● Hōkūleʻa start/stop e-mail notification: "If you would like an automatically generated e-mail notification each time Hōkūleʻa gets underway or stops, send e-mail to: Michael - mchlshntn@gmail.com"

Media

● Blog: National Geographic Worldwide Voyage

● Video: Hokule'a Launching March 1975, Hokule'a 1976 (Maiden Voyage, Hawai'i <> Tahiti)

● Documentary: The Navigators (DVD, Online (Master Navigator Mau Piailug teaches navigating by stars, by ocean swells)); Papa Mau: The Wayfinder (Online); Wayfinders (PBS, Online); Light at the Edge of the World: Polynesia: The Wayfinders (Smithsonian Networks, Wade Davis (DVD, Online));

Background

● "Polynesian Voyaging Canoe launches Polynesian Renaissance…Something extraordinary is happening throughout the Polynesian Triangle, launched from Hawai’i in the mid-1970s, with the resumption of the building & sailing of the ancient deep ocean going Polynesian Voyaging Canoes, original construction of which began circa 1600 BC and ended around 1500 AD. The ship’s captains utilized instrument-less navigation techniques to discover and settle all the island nations of the Polynesian Triangle during that period. With the aim of refuting such modern Western theories as Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition “drift theory” of Polynesian migration and settlement, the Hawaiians, who had lost the art of Polynesian voyaging canoe building & navigating, in 1973 formed the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS), which in 1975 built a full size, twin-sailed, double-hulled, classic 62-foot transoceanic Polynesian voyaging canoe of the type used in ancient times to discover & settle all the island nations of the Polynesian Triangle, the first such canoe built since 1500 A.D., the now legendary 'Hōkūle‘a'…Over the next few years from her maiden voyage, Hōkūle‘a proceeded to retrace all the original ancient inter-island Polynesian Voyages of Discovery routes, logging over [150,000] miles. Construction of additional canoes soon followed…which in turn led to an explosion of voyaging canoe building and sailing throughout the island nations of the Polynesian Triangle [most notably Pacific Voyagers], firmly reestablishing the ancient network of travel and trade routes, which is now fueling the ongoing “Polynesian Renaissance”. The Renaissance movement [then prepared] all the canoes, led by Hōkūle‘a, for an historic, 1^st-ever [5 year, 50,000 mile] mission to circumnavigate the Earth, called the “Hōkūle‘a Worldwide Voyage”, aimed at promoting a message of [peace &] global sustainability [particularly their agricultural system Mālama 'Āina ("Care of the Land") Ahupuaʻa ("land division" (Valley, Coast, Island))] and [launched in 2013]“. --"Sailing > Villa St. Jean Blog project"