Thousands of people came together Saturday to celebrate 50 years of Hōkūleʻa's history of voyaging at Kualoa Regional Park, ...

That vessel — a double-hulled sailing canoe called the Hokulea, after the Hawaiian name for the star Arcturus — would even influence the Disney blockbuster “Moana” decades later.

The Voyaging Canoe View from the rear of a replica Polynesian canoe. The Polynesians' primary voyaging craft was the double canoe made of two hulls connected by lashed crossbeams. The two hulls ...