Maori master canoe builder, Hekenukumai Busby (New Zealand)

In 1985 a Tuhoe elder, John Rangihau was overseas. In Hawaii he met some Hawaiians thinking about sailing a canoe from Hawaii to Tahiti onto Rarotonga, but they were unsure about a journey between Rarotonga and Aotearoa. Then Nainoa Thompson one of Mau Piailugs first students came to New Zealand. He had to decide whether or not to sail to NZ. I accepted responsibility for their care and he agreed to sail here and made me a very happy man. That is when they prepared themselves for their Voyage of Rediscovery.

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YAY! Johns my Koro! RIP my Koro