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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Sailing ship, Cutter, Hokulea, Mary Celeste, SS Great Eastern, Sparrow Hawk, Mayflower, Loch Line, The Wanderer, Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul, Zuytdorp, Carroll A. Deering, HMS Lady Nelson, Tryall, Zeewijk, Arka Noego, Clotilde, Marlborough, Loch Sloy, Mayflower II, James, SAIL Amsterdam, The Ark, USS General Pike, Madagascar, Shitik, Polly, Paul Jones, S.S.S. Lotus, Hydrabad, Sailing ship accidents, Transit, Cattewater Wreck, Larinda, København, Christian Radich, Pausik, Vergulde Draeck, Thomas Arbuthnot, Betsey, USS Wave, English ship Swan, Elida, NRP Sagres III, Speedwell, Brigantine, USS Scorpion, Empress of China, Fortuyn, Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Rooswijk, Lady Lovibond, Argo, Belinda, Earl of Abergavenny, Sørlandet, Europa, Royal Adelaide, Eliza, USS Morris, Sirene, Daphne, Campbell Macquarie, Hanne Marie, Grace, Tunas Samudera, Phatisalam, Lady Elliot, Actaeon, Young Lachlan, Windeward Bound, Halcyon 23, John Palmer, Morning Star, Unity, Griffin, Elligood, List of Egyptian sail frigates, Sydney, Santa Anna 1812, Tjotter, The Brothers, Queen Indiaman, Princess Charlotte, Hebe, Poseidon 644, Tellicherry, Duc du Maine, Sir Foxwell Buxton, Carolina, Amelia, Clove, Aurore, Greif, Chinaman, Suhaili. Excerpt: Hōkūlea is a performance-accurate full-scale replica of a waa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. Launched on 8 March 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, she is best known for her 1976 Hawaii to Tahiti voyage performed with Polynesian navigation techniques, without modern navigational instruments. The primary goal of the voyage was to further support the anthropological theory of the Asiatic origin of native Oceanic people (Oceania maps:detail, region), of Polynesians and Hawaiians in particular, as the result of purposeful trips through the Pacific, as opposed to passive drifting on currents, or sa...
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