http://www.puakea.org Perpetuating Pacific Island Canoe Culture Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:17:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Date: Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm Location: Heeia State Park Heeia State Park is just north of Kaneohe. Pull into the parking lot and look for us at the west end of the lot near the canoe halau - you can't miss us! Here is the map to Heeia State ... http://www.puakea.org/2008/03/27/annual-meeting-this-sunday/ We had a busy meeting and a great turnout for this month's board meeting. Save the Date! We are having a General Membership Meeting at Heeia Park from 4 pm - 7 pm. We'll be having light pupus and Uncle Bobby will show us the continuing work on the Hoʻolale and Meʻe ... http://www.puakea.org/2008/02/09/board-meeting-news-from-feb-9/ This past November, the "Hawaii Island News":http://www.hawaiiislandjournal.com/2007/1110a.html featured a cover story on Uncle Bobby, Uncle John Kekua, and Gary Puniwai. This article is about the canoe-building activities of the three men and their contributions to preserving Polynesian culture. Here is an excerpt from the article: A koa tree takes the better part ... http://www.puakea.org/2008/01/06/polynesian-hot-rod-uncle-bobby-in-the-news/ 2007 has been a busy and wonderful year for the Puakea Foundation. We will try to bring you up to date on what we have been doing. In January and February we had our annual paddle workshop. It was a small one but enjoyed by the attendees. In April Uncle ... http://www.puakea.org/2007/12/30/hello-world/ Watch the interview with Uncle Bobby and learn about the exciting plans to tour the mainland USA with Uncle Bobby and the koa canoes in 2008! (Click the picture to start playing.) 5:35 mins. More Hawaii stories can be found on "Beachwalks.tv":http://www.beachwalks.tv http://www.puakea.org/2006/12/12/uncle-bobby-on-beachwalkstv/ In 2006, the Masters Women raced the Ho'ola, a koa canoe built by Bobby's dad in the 1950's, in Kona for the big Queen Lil'uokalani Canoe Race. They raced "iron" - which means the entire 18 mile course with no crew changes. http://www.puakea.org/2006/12/01/queen-liluokalani-2006/ On July 16, 2005 volunteers from Bobby and Pat's daughter Tayshea's pack came to Heeia and helped cut down a dead tree and clear the bougainvillea from the area where Bobby is going to build and repair canoes for the foundation. As a result of this we were able to ... http://www.puakea.org/2005/12/03/heeia-project/ One of the goals of the Puakea Foundation is to race the koa canoes whenever possible. For example, there are many communities that have never seen a koa canoe, even though the sport of outrigger canoe racing is well-established. It is also a goal of the foundation to support paddlers ... http://www.puakea.org/2005/12/01/na-wahine-o-ke-kai-2005/