Sailing is all about balance. I step over the narrow bow of the bug to take the outstretched hand of Alexis Moerai, aka Galax ...

The vessel was met at sea and escorted to the coast by hundreds of Chamorro sailing canoes. An observer on the San Pedro that day wrote that he counted 400-500 canoes around the ship. 500 Sails ...

I was there to learn about and support the revival of Taumako’s canoe tradition,” Mr. John explains. Mr. John is celebrated for completing a record-breaking circumnavigation of PNG and West Papua in a ...

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15 at Crowne Plaza Resort. 500 Sails was incorporated in 2014 after co-founders Peter and Emma Perez moved to Saipan in order to build Chamorro canoes. They used as a blueprint the “Anson Drawing,” a ...

Milton Coleman Jr., executive director, said, "We here in our islands had not seen a Chamorro sailing canoe in my lifetime and actually in over 270+ years. So to see it come to fruition and now have a ...

The 23-year-old canoeist's expedition is a personal expression of gratitude following a near-paralyzing car accident a decade ago.

“The canoe was a traditional sailing canoe from the Milne Bay province in eastern Papua New Guinea, and they still use them to this day to travel around the islands. “It’s made out of a dug-up tree ...

The climate is changing, science shows. And according to some estimates, it could create anywhere between 200 million and 1.2 ...