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No compass, no problem: Lehua Kamalu is leading the movement to revive Polynesian wayfaring. She and the 10-member crew aboard the double-hulled canoe Hōkūle’a just completed a 3,000-mile voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti. There was no technology onboard; the sun, stars, waves, and wind served as compass and map. “Everything is done mentally,” says Kamalu, captain and navigator (pictured above). A Nat Geo Emerging Explorer, Kamalu became the first known woman to captain and navigate a long-distance ocean voyage without modern technology when she sailed 2,800 miles from Hawaii to California in 2018.
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