#Outrigger Canoe

[sumbluespruce]

Evening run

4/24

#photographers on tumblr #my photograph #Outrigger Canoe #waves

[tenth-sentence]

A peculiarly white and very light wood (Hibiscus tilaceus) is alone used for this purpose: it is the same which serves for poles to carry any burden, and for the floating outriggers to the canoes.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin

#book quote #the voyage of the beagle #charles darwin #nonfiction #white wood #light wood #hibiscus tilaceus #firelight #poles #burden #outriggers #canoes #tahiti #pacific islands

[rtiodev]

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#canoe #outrigger #outriggercanoe #outdoorsports

[tanadrin]

Sometimes, Chris Hayes' podcast goes off on these weird tangents, and the most recent episode is one of them, quite explicitly. It's about the history of Polynesia, which is always a fascinating subject--the Polynesian expansion, and really the whole history of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, seems like one of those feats with rare equal in human history. It's one thing to roam over the vast steppes of Asia--it's quite another to take a canoe, stick some outriggers on it so it doesn't tip over, and start faring the open ocean.

One point his guest makes that I found interesting is that for the most part the atolls and little islands of the Pacific are a very harsh environment. Big volcanic archipelagoes like Hawaii and Aotearoa/New Zealand are rare. Atolls and other reef islands especially are functionally big limestone slabs, often without any source of fresh water, with no large mammals, and with few native plants you can eat. The weather is nice, sure (when there isn't a typhoon--and I can't help but think a typhoon on a little island must be terrifying indeed), but these are not inherently resource-rich places. That the Polynesian (and Micronesian and Melanesian!) peoples not only could travel those distances, but make permanent habitation on the islands they came across, is kind of crazy! You have to be really prepared, with a package of supplies and technologies that set you up for success. Long-distance trade is possible, but you're not gonna be running any kind of substantial import economy across hundreds or thousands of miles of ocean via catamarans.

The comparison that springs to mind to me isn't a historical one like the European age of exploration, which was overwhelmingly to places already peopled and productive, but to science fiction scenarios of space exploration. You'd have to have a little bit of the wild-eyed zealot to be the sort of person who ignores the cries of "there is no possible useful return on this investment" to settle most of these places. But they did! And they thrived for centuries!

#and totally incidentally created one of the most fascinating environments for historical linguistics ever

[tonireavis]

20 YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!

Honolulu, HI – Today, 8 December 2022, marks Toya and my 20th wedding anniversary, a day for celebration and remembrance. Memorably married barefoot on the beach at sunset at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Honolulu following the 30th Honolulu Marathon and preceding the post- race VIP party, the ceremony was officiated by a local catamaran boat captain named Krash. At first, his name and title…

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#Araki #Fatuma Roba #Honolulu Marathon #Hunter S. Thompson #Jim Barahal #Outrigger Canoe Club

[edithlevy]

“Row, Row, Row” Color or B&W…your room your choice. Outrigger canoeing dates back to 1500 BCE when outrigger boats were used for transportation in the South Pacific and across the Indian Ocean. Today Outrigger canoe racing is a popular sport in Hawaii and French Polynesia. I'm not sure if it was a school team or professional team of rowers but everyday in the late afternoon / early evening this group would row back and forth past my resort. On this day I was waiting for them. DM for details or check out the New Releases in the link in bio. .. .. #frenchpolynesia #tahiti #tahitilife #outrigger #outriggercanoe #rowing #canoe #artistsoninstagram #artoftheday #fineartphotography #fineartphg #fineartphotographer #fineartphoto #fineartprints #corporateart #corporateartcollection #artforthehome #gallery_legit #artcollector #ig_myshot #fineartzone (at Tahiti) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjIUZJggxc6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#frenchpolynesia #tahiti #tahitilife #outrigger #outriggercanoe #rowing #canoe #artistsoninstagram #artoftheday #fineartphotography #fineartphg #fineartphotographer #fineartphoto #fineartprints #corporateart #corporateartcollection #artforthehome #gallery_legit #artcollector #ig_myshot #fineartzone

[equatorjournal]

A Lagatoi outrigger canoe with its sails lowered, 1904. Courtesy of British Museum. https://www.instagram.com/p/Coac6lst_Hm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[homomenhommes]

Outrigger Canoe Club, Kamehameha Day Regatta - 1944

[hellpups-house]

Outrigger canoe adventure!

#shirtless guy #lean muscle #shirtless hunks #jock #guys with beards #swim trunks

[goblinwithartsupplies]

After learning about his pregnancy, Percy and his family flee.

No, not to Alaska.

they are returning to their origins.

they're going back to Hawaii.

the ancestors and the family accept them.

The son of Percy and Jason is born on the island of Maui.

little boy and his dad will not be offended by either the Greeks or the Romans.

Ancestors and family protect them.

Yes!! I’m obsessed with native Hawaiian demigod Sally!!!

Percy shouldn’t have been able to explode mount Tam. Poseidon knows that, he doesn’t know how Percy did that. But Sally knows. Because she is a daughter of Pele the Hawaiian goddess of volcanos.

Sally hid the truth from both Poseidon and Percy. She was scared of the repercussions of Percy technically being 3/4 god.

When Percy lands on Maui he has no idea that he’s a Hawaiian legacy. He just hopes his ancestors will protect him.

The ghosts of his maternal family were a surprise but a welcome one.

His grandfather Jim was always hovering protectively over the newborn a ghostly pololū (spear) in his hand. His great aunt taught him how to make traditional Hawaiian food. His great uncle taught him how to make and sail traditional outrigger canoe. His grandfather also teaches him how to lava sled (apparently how he impressed Sally’s mother).

when an old woman comes to his door asking for smokes and booze. Percy knows that it’s Pele from the stories his mother told him. The real surprise is when she starts calling him grandson.

#pjo #percy jackson #Polynesian Percy Jackson #pjo ask #pjo stuff #anon ask #pjo hoo toa

[transgenderer]

The master builder might look like one of those sowu or experts whose work is primarily secular and not religious. Canoe construction and house building are primarily technical skills, but here one again encounters the diffused nature of religion in preindustrial societies. In the belief of the Chuuk islands, the roong, or skill-knowledge, of building is bestowed by the spirits. Hence, the master builder must, as sowufanafan, perform certain religious rituals to build a good outrigger or house. The religious dimension was viewed as a cultural imperative, as Bollig saw when he included the sowufanafan in his list of "carriers of religion" (1927, 72)

In the case of canoe construction, the religious ritual was woven throughout the process. It began with the felling of the breadfruit tree. Here the servants of the breadfruit spirits, the sowuyotoomey, accompanied the chopping with a prayer and offering in hopes that the core of the tree would not be rotten. This is another good example of religious ritual that is not magic in the Frazer sense of manipulation. The sowuyotoomey begged and made offerings and repeated the prayer if the felled tree was indeed rotten.

Next, the trunk was rough-hewn, but when it was brought to a house for building the canoe, a sacred time began for the sowufanafan and his helpers. Knotted coconut leaves were put around the house as markers: No one could enter, especially not women. The sowufanafan and his workers stayed there day and night during an extended work period. They could leave after a time only if the sowufanafan declared and end to the taboos (pin). The success of the work depended on the ritual of the sowufanafan, such as the offerings of prayers to Enuunap and the observance of the prohibitions of the spirits. (pin enu). Those caught violating the taboos were sent away. The medicinal master (sowuyotoomey) cam every morning and afternoon to "caress" the canoe and the to sing. The master builder could also order a break, during which all taboos were lifted. At the launching of the finished canoe, the outrigger was adorned with coconut fronds and the master builder sang. According to Bollig, on some islands it was customary to launch the boat near a launching stone, a rock upon which a sea spirit lived. Offerings were thrown in the sea for this spirit. If the boat was a rowing canoe, it was then tested in a race. In the center of the boat t be tested was the breadfruit master, who again caressed the boat and called on the spirits. As the boat gained speed, both the breadfruit master's invocations and the rowing became wilder. On completion of the race, a feast was held to thank the spirits and the master builder. The taboos then lost their force.

In sum, the role of the master builder was both technical and religious. The presence of the breadfruit master was another indication that the building and launching was religious. The religious dimension of the canoe construction should not be classed with the obligatory blessings given to new ships in the Western world upon the completion. The Chuuk thinking was different: The critical time was during construction. There were many other "masters" (sowu) whose status and role was likewise a tandem of technical skills and religious observance.

Summoning the Powers Beyond: Traditional Religions in Micronesia, Dobbin, on the practices of the Chuuk people

[tanadrin]

The European approach to ocean exploration was brute force: building ships bigger and bigger, scaling up the Mediterranean and coast-hugging ships of prior eras. This made sense for the things these ships were used for: bulk long-distance trade, as the scale and complexity of medieval trade grew; and warfare, where it turns out putting cannons on a boat makes you one of the deadliest things on the ocean.

But there is something that feels much more romantic and elegant about the Austronesian outrigger canoes and the Polynesian catamarans. These don't require massive expenditure of resources and manpower to build, which your society, being smaller in population, doesn't have anyway. You can equip them for long voyages still--Polynesian navigators crossed similar distances as the European navigators. They're fast. And you can still conduct trade with them, although at a smaller scale--which again makes sense, since the Pacific is more lightly populated than the important coastal regions of Afro-Eurasia, and you're trading on behalf of, like, small island polities and not large empires.

The Atlantic has many fewer small island chains, but it still did develop a culture with similar naval technology--the Norse! What was the longship but a war-canoe with a sail? And it served a similar economic function--a platform for small-scale entrepreneurs, generally from small polities (including small island polities like the Faroes and Iceland), also capable of managing transoceanic distances.

[vintageviewmaster]

Caption: THE ROYAL HAWAIIAN & OUTRIGGER CANOE

Brand: View-Master Packet Title: N/A Reel Title: Waikiki Reel Subtitle: Island of Oahu Hawaii Reel Number: 73 Reel Edition: N/A Image Number: 1 Date: 1949

#viewmaster #view-master #73 #waikiki #oahu #hawaii

[holidayvisa]

21 February 2024 - Double tour day

4 clients from California: Hussein, Amber, Divina, and Shelly. They were all rowers competing in the outrigger canoe competition in Auckland. It was clear from the start of the day that they were all athletes. They were quick, they were very body-aware, they were competent, and they were capable. After we did a practice abseil and practice bottom-belaying, I felt comfortable with any of them bottom-belaying throughout the day. For the first two abseils, we moved quickly through the canyon, and everyone had turns bottom-belaying for others.

When we got to the top of the third abseil, the big, 50-meter abseil, I asked the crew, "who feels the most confident in bottom-belaying?" Hussein raised his hand, and I was perfectly comfortable and confident in his bottom-belaying. So, I gave him the schpiel -

as you abseil, there's a ledge about 60 feet up from the bottom. Some people get to this ledge and think, "I'm done with the abseil," and they unhook from the ropes. When you get to this ledge, you're NOT done with the abseil. Keep abseiling until you're all the way in the water. You're not done with the abseil until you're all the way in the water. Once you're in the water, then you can disconnect from the ropes. After you've disconnected from both ropes AND you're ready to bottom-belay, give me three tugs on the orange rope and give me three tugs on the black rope. That communicates to me that you're safely at the bottom of the abseil AND that you're ready to bottom-belay on BOTH ropes.

I gave him a whistle, and I told him that if anyone had any trouble at any point during the third abseil, that he should blow the whistle, and I'd come down and figure out a solution. Then, I asked him, so, what are your duties? He gave me the succinct version: "abseil down, don't stop at the ledge, abseil all the way to the water, three tugs on each rope." Perfect! I sent him down. After a a few minutes, I feel the rope go slack, then I feel three tugs on the orange rope and three tugs on the black rope. Perfect! He's safely down and ready to bottom-belay! I looked in the rope bag (the rope bag that I had the end of Hussein's backup line, leading to the munter hitch on the DCR anchor). "Huh, that's a lot of rope in that rope bag," I thought. Shit! He's standing on the ledge! I lowered out about 20 more meters of rope before tying off with an MMO. I told the other clients, "I'm going to take a peak over the edge. I'll be right back." I set myself up for abseil on the DCR line, the one that I'd just tied into an MMO. I abseil down to the lip, where I was able to peak over the edge and see the bottom of the abseil. Shit. He's definitely NOT at the bottom of the abseil. I abseiled the rest of the way down, and once I got about 20 meters down the abseil, I could see Hussein clearly - yep, there he is, standing on that ledge. I abseiled the rest of the way down to him, and he looked up at me with confusion on his face. He started to say, "Adam, what are you..." and then I could see a light bulb go off, "... oh, THIS ledge! THIS is the ledge you told me not to stop on. Right, I was supposed to NOT stop on this ledge and keep abseiling all the way to the water. Whoops! Sorry, my bad!" As soon as I got to him, I clipped him back into a rope. I tied myself off on a clove hitch, rigged Hussein up for abseil, and I tied a backup line to him as well. I asked him if he was still good to bottom-belay; he said that he was. I told him that I needed to ascend all the way up to the very top of the third abseil so that I could hook the rest of the clients up for abseil. I told Hussein that I'd blow my whistle when I reached the top, and that he should blow his whistle when he was ready to bottom-belay. He abseiled/I lowered him down to the ACTUAL bottom of the abseil. I ascended all the way from the ledge to the top of Kitekite Falls. When I got to the top, the clients asked me, "is everything okay?" I should have told them that I was going to be gone for several minutes instead of what I'd actually told them, which was, "I'm going to take a peak over the edge; I'll be right back." Whoops, that was my bad. "Yes, everything's okay," I responded. I blew my whistle to let Hussein know that I reached the top; he blew his whistle to communicate to me that he was ready to bottom-belay. Perfect! we're back on track! I set up Shelly and Divina on the two lines, and sent them down. Several minutes later, I feel three tugs on one of the ropes, so I set up Amber on that rope and send her down. Just a minute later, Amber has only abseiled down maybe 10 or 15 meters, I hear a whistle. Shit! What's wrong? Is someone hurt? What happened? Both ropes are tensioned, so I know that I can't set up to abseil. So, I get out my VT prussik, and I use a valdotain to attach myself to the tensioned line that Amber is NOT on. I lower myself down to Amber and immediately locked her off so that she couldn't go anywhere. I lowered myself down to the lip, where I was able to look down and see the very bottom of the abseil. When I looked down, I saw Shelly and Divina both off rope, at the very bottom of the abseil, totally fine. "What's the problem?" I thought. I gave them a big "okay" symbol, trying to ask if they were okay; and they responded with a big, "okay" symbol. That's when I realized - Hussein blew the whistle because I'd told him to blow the whistle when he was ready to bottom belay. That was my bad, that I'd changed our communication system. Anyway, I went back up to Amber, she was ready to abseil, so I removed her lock-off, and she continued to abseil down.

[equatorjournal]

Satawal Islanders, 1962. Photo by David S. Boyer. "Sails set high at sunrise, Satawal Islanders beyond the horizon. These residents of small atolls between Yap and Truk in the western Pacific sail hundreds of miles in outriggers made from breadfruit planks. Canoes bore voyagers to distant Pacific island homes centuries before Columbus braved the Atlantic, perhaps even before the birth of Christ. Shallow draft enabled their boats to get through coral reefs; stability came from a light float attached to the bull with booms, or by a second bull connected by a platform. Double canoes of Tonga, largest known in Polynesia, reached 100 feet and carried as many as 200 voyagers. Some were built of planks stitched together with cord made from the fibrous bark of the purau tree. Paddles, and mat-like sails woven from pandanus leaves, propelled them." From "Men, ships, and the sea" by Alan Villiers, 1978. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQhoKatjRw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[proudadsstuff]

Outrigger canoe. An 8th grade carving from 65+ years ago.

#wood carving