Hawaii Sailing
General Boating Info for Hawaii
Pleasure boating as a family sport is growing in popularity everyyear. The U.S. Coast Guard estimated the total number of recreationalboats in 1962 at 5.85 million. This number has grown to a currentestimate of more than 20 million pleasure boats. Each year, anestimated 75 million people go boating. Today recreational boats areused for a wide variety of activities, including fishing, waterskiing, hunting, sailing, paddling, or just plain cruising. ... [Read More]
Hawaii's Wake
Archeological and linguistic evidence suggests that the islands were first settled at least a thousand years ago by Polynesians who island-hopped from west to east. It was a remarkable feat: Using only sailing canoes they navigated vast distances against opposing winds and currents. ... : Herb Kawainui Kane's painting of Hawai'iloa, a modern replica of an ancient Polynesian sailing canoe. [ ... [Read More]
NMS - Marine Sanctuaries - Hawaii Humpback Whale
The beaches of Hawaii offer ample opportunity for sailing, diving, snorkeling and swimming. Maui offers several beaches including: Big Beach famed for optimal body surfing waves, Wailea and its resident sea turtle population and brilliant coral reef, and Kamaole Beach noted as a great place to see a sunset. ... [Read More]
Hawaii: Global Islands - Quality of Life
Hawaii is a recreational wonderland for those who enjoy the outdoors, with renowned golf courses and tennis facilities and ample opportunities for sailing, diving, horseback riding, hiking and camping and mountain-bike riding. ... [Read More]
PART I
(1) Less than five hundred gross tons, carrying six or more individuals who are sailing school students or sailing school instructors principally equipped for propulsion by sail even if the vessel has an auxiliary means of propulsion; and ... (2) Owned or leased by a corporation, association, organization, or other duly chartered entity determined under the Internal Revenue Code to be exempt from the federal income tax and operated for the purpose of providing sailing instruction and therapeutic, educational, recreational, vocational, or family counseling services to emotionally disturbed youth or to youth sentenced by the family court to a rehabilitative sailing program and their families. ... [Read More]
Wind - history
Wind energy has been used by Hawaii's people throughout their history. The ancient Hawaiians relied on the wind to take their sailing canoes not only on long voyages, but also in everyday activities, such as fishing. ... [Read More]
US Dept of State
Sailing school vessels; rules. The department shall adopt rules for the regulation and operation of sailing school vessels. Until the rules are adopted, sailing school vessels shall be classified as recreational vessels and subject to rules adopted under sections 200-4 and 200-9 that pertain to recreational vessels; provided that sailing school vessels shall be exempt from: ... [Read More]
Aumakua
Research on Polynesian canoes and voyaging led to his participation as general designer and builder of the sailing canoe Hokule'a, on which he served as its first captain. Hokule'a has made a number of round trip voyages to South Pacific destinations, including a 16,000 mile pan-Polynesia voyage to New Zealand and back, and a trip to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), all navigated without instruments. ... [Read More]
What to read about Hawaii : a bibliography
SAILING FOR THE SUN: THE CHINESE IN HAWAII ,1789-1989 With essays by Toy Len Chang, et al(Honolulu: Three Heroes, 1988. 200p.) Traces the historyof Chinese in Hawaii through photos and essays. ... [Read More]
US Dept of State
Hawaii's maritime cargo operations have evolved from the use of simple sailing ships and the labor of seamen to incredibly large, specialized ships with a wide array of shipping containers and mechanized cargo handling methods. This evolution places an urgent demand on the commercial harbor to provide the facilities, space, utilities, roadways and authorizations necessary to facilitate the receipt of Hawaii's essential cargoes. The State's commercial harbors have become shipping's and Hawaii's life-line infrastructure. Ocean cargo carriers, with their specialized requirements, can only deliver their commodities through these commercial harbors. ... [Read More]
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