Members of the Hawaiian Sailing Canoe Association race from the Big Island to Maui in this image captured off the coast of Maui. The association works to educate the public about Native Hawaiian ...

Festival goers at the sixth Festival of Pacific Arts gather in Avana Harbor on the island of Rarotonga to see off Hokule'a as it begins its voyage back to Hawaii in October 1992. Anders Ryman/Corbis ...

And to help fund the expedition, he is auctioning off pants that he sewed himself while canoeing his way back to Michigan from Florida. Frank finished paddling the Great Loop, a path of waterways ...

The Hawaiian Sailing Canoe Association is a non-profit organization whose mission is ” to learn, revive, educate and practice those ancient Hawaiian skills and values as they relate to sailing canoes ...

CHARLOTTE, NC - APRIL 09: (L-R) Casey Eichfeld and Devin McEwan compete in the Men’s C2 during day two of the Canoe/Kayak US National Team Trials at the U.S. National Whitewater on April 9, 2016 in ...

Centuries before Captain Cook explored the South Pacific, Polynesian seafarers in canoes crossed vast swaths of water to colonize lonely islands from Samoa and New Zealand all the way to Hawaii. But ...