By the time he was 29, Gilliom was the youngest crew member on the Mo‘olele and sailed across Molokai, Lanai and Maui in its early years, eventually becoming its captain and sailing across the state.

That vessel — a double-hulled sailing canoe called the Hokulea, after the Hawaiian name for the star Arcturus — would even influence the Disney blockbuster "Moana" decades later. To mark the ...

That vessel — a double-hulled sailing canoe called the Hokulea, after the Hawaiian name for the star Arcturus — would even influence the Disney blockbuster “Moana” decades later.

But a canoe launched half a century ago helped turn Hawaiian culture from a source of shame to one of pride, reviving the skill of traveling the seas by decoding the stars, waves and weather. That ...

"Their disabilities mean that they have to transfer to a padded mat and when the water is high the more disabled are physically manhandled to get them through the water to the floating craft, which is ...