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April 5, 2009
Hōkūle'a Estimated Arrival Time Noon
Aloha friends and family,
Please gather at METC at 11 am (instead of 9:30 as previously reported). It looks like Hōkūle‘a and Kama Hele will be in around noon.
Again, if you would like to bring pupu/ice cold drinks (the crew hasnʻt had anything cold for a while) and lei, please feel free. Paddlers you are, of course, welcome to paddle out to greet them.
Photo: Mike Taylor
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your arrival time
How did you estimate the arrival time as 11:00a.m?
Arrival time
Aloha,
Since we knew their approximate position and speed, we could calculate a very rough arrival time. However, one of the hard things about traditional voyaging is that both the crew and the wa‘a are at the mercy of the wind and waves. So, because Hōkūle‘a's speed is never really constant, we refer to it as canoe time – meaning basically they arrive when they arrive.