News 6/6

NOHOANGA TE MATANGI – POSITIONS OF THE WIND

I. NOHOANGA TE MATANGI – POSITIONS OF THE WIND A navigational system correlating a horizonal array of wind positions with other...

Notes from the Solomon Islands

In Memoriam: We lost our wonderful friend and strong supporter of the Vaka Taumako Project. Larry Williamson, President of the Pacific...

Canoe Sailing in the Solomon Islands

You haven’t seen me on the river since the end of August. The reason is that I’ve been on Taumako, a remote island in the Solomon...

Sailing With Lata: The Original Polynesian Voyager

Sailing With Lata: An Exhibit at Kauai Museum Mimi, Larry, and Meph have been hard at work hanging photos, arranging artifacts, and...

Cause for Celebration: Open House in Taumako

from Pacific Paddler Magazine, June 2002 – by Meph Wyeth Dateline: Duff Islands, Temoto Province, eastern Solomon Islands. Sunday 24...

The Art and Craft of a Polynesian Voyaging Canoe

from Pacific Arts Magazine, May 2000 by Heu’ionalani Meph Wyeth On the tiny island of Taumako (fig. 1) in the Solomon Islands’ eastern...

The First Te Puke

How Lata built the first voyaging canoe as told by Paramount Chief Kruso Kaveia for Sailing New Zealand Magazine, July 1999 A man and his...

Return of the Te Puke

from Solomons, inflight magazine of Solomon Airlines, June 1998, Issue #25, page 34 by Meph Wyeth Thank God for your safe arrival here…...

The Return of Lata: Building an Authentic Polynesian Voyaging Canoe

by Mimi George, Ph.D. for Sea History Magazine, Spring 1998 How were stone-age Polynesian craft built and how did they perform at sea? ...