Knots on Knots on Knots on Knots...
What Knot to do On Wednesday, January 25, 2018, I visited Kānēhūnāmoku Voyaging Academy (KVA) in Kaʻalaea. It is a beautiful education center on everything waʻa related. We hosted a 9th grader group from H ā lau K ū M āna that day as well in preparation for their upcoming six-day huakaʻi on the sailing vessel Makaliʻi. I was fortunate enough to stay and volunteer and learn with the students as well as from them since they had all been coming to KVA for weeks. Thanks to my previous semester with Kumu Lei at WCC and the Polynesian Voyaging class, I was familiar with many of the lessons; but I was nowhere near as comfortable with them as these other students. I have much to learn before I do any REAL sailing and I am so grateful to KVA for their graciously accepting me into their ʻOhana and showing me the ropes (literally). So the first and foremost crucial lesson I repeatedly learn is: Knots is life. Seriously, so many things on the waʻa depend on you knowing how to ...
