Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle‘a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance by Sam Low

Author:Sam Low
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Published: 2014-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

Looking out through the sprayshield of his sampan, Paul Gay could now see the familiar rim of Diamond Head and the hotels at Waikīkī. He adjusted his course toward Ke‘ehi Lagoon, a sheltered yacht basin a few miles west of downtown Honolulu. Wally could not take his eyes off the canoe straining at the towrope behind the lumbering sampan. To anyone else, she would have appeared damaged beyond repair. But Wally was an optimist. He knew better. When the sampan and Hōkūle‘a entered Ke‘ehi’s sheltered waters, a crowd had gathered.

“Everybody was crying and mourning,” Wally remembers. “Oh god, it was really emotional. ‘We lost the Hōkūle‘a. She’s gone.’ We didn’t lose Hōkūle‘a! I knew we could fix her up.”

Wally’s first task was to turn the canoe over. Other men might have thought of a crane, but Wally had righted many overturned catamarans in his day. Nothing to it, really. “The water in Ke‘ehi is shallow, all we had to do was put a line on the canoe, around the hulls, and tow it fast. Everything just drags on the bottom until it fetches up, and if you tow fast enough and don’t stop, the canoe will flip over. And that’s just what she did.”

Soon after the accident it seemed like everyone in Hawai‘i had an opinion about its causes—most were contradictory.

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