WHO WE ARE
The Vaka Taumako Project is a team of volunteer sailors, navigators, canoe-builders, students, teachers, scholars, doctors, documentarians, cooks and gardeners; men, women, children and elders from the Solomon Islands and the United States, working to perpetuate the practice of ancient Polynesian voyaging knowledge. Officially, the Vaka Taumako Project operates under the aegis of the Pacific Traditions Society, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization since 1988.
WHAT WE DO
We learn how to build and sail voyaging canoes from the last Polynesian people who are experienced in doing that using fully ancient methods, materials and tools. We document the technology and meanings of voyaging for the crews and communities involved. We create cultural and educational collaborations and international awareness of ancient arts as they as being practiced and learned and shared by Taumako artisans and wayfinders.
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