Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 31, Number 7, 1 July 2014 — HONORING A MASTER NAVIGATOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HONORING A MASTER NAVIGATOR

French Polynesian President Gaston Flosse in June inducted master navigator Nainoa Thompson into the Order of Tahiti Nui at a ceremony at the Presidential Palaee. Flosse, not pictured, also plans to hold a ceremony July 29 to rename Paofai heaeh in Pape'ete to Hōkūle'a Beach in honor of the speeial relationship between Tahiti and Hawai'i. The ceremony will be followed by a parade. Hawai'i's voyaging eanoe Hōkūle'a first sailed to Tahitiin 1976 inahistoric crossing that sparked a revival of noninstrument navigation in Hawai'i. In June, Hōkūle'a and its sister eanoe Hikianalia made landfall in Tahiti on its first international leg of its current worldwide voyage. Following the induction ceremony, Thompson asked fellow pwo navigators Bruce Blankenfeld, Kōlepa Baybayan and Tua Pittman to join him in carrying out the responsibility of commanderjn the Order of Tahiti Nui. - Courtesy: 'Oiwi TV/Ken Chong

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