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= Makaliʻi =

Makaliʻi is a traditional voyaging canoe based out of Kawaihae, Hawaiʻi, built by Nā Kālai Waʻa, and launched on February 4, 1995. The canoe is a 54 foot double hulled canoe built and rigged in traditional Hawaiian style. Makaliʻi is a name shared by the Hawaiian term for the Pleiades Cluster whose first rising begins Makahiki. and is the name attributed to Hawai'iloa's navigator. Aside from long distance voyaging, Makaliʻi is also used as an educational tool in Hawaiʻi.

First Voyage
The canoe first sailed as a part of a 1995 communal long distance voyage organized by the Polynesian Voyaging Society and entitled Na ‘Ohana Holo Moana: The Voyaging Families of the Vast Ocean. Although Makaliʻi was delayed in joining the first stages of the voyage by the need to complete rigging and sea trials, the canoe joined with a fleet of 5 other canoes including Hokule'a, Hawai'iloa, Te 'Aurere, Te 'Au o Tonga, and Takitumu in Tautira, Tahiti on March 28, 1995 before setting out for Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands on April 5. Records are scarce as Makaliʻi did not carry modern navigational aids such as GPS or a satellite transponder however, records from Hokule'a traveling roughly a day behind suggest a date of arrival of April 12. Makaliʻi departed Nukuhiva on April 19 bound north for Hawaiʻi arriving May 7, 1995 after a combined 65 days and almost 6,000 miles.

Second Voyage
On February 10, 1999, Makaliʻi set sail from Kaʻupulehu, Hawai'i bound for Satawal and other points in Micronesia. This voyage was entitled 'E Mau - Sailing the Master Home' and was undertaken to honor master voyager Mau Piailug who was aboard as an honored guest. Mau was the primary teacher of voyaging techniques in the early days of the revitalization of voyaging in Hawaiʻi. Captained by Milton "Shorty" Bertelmann, the voyage lasted until May, 1999, covered much of Micronesia, and succeeded in sailing Mau to his home island in Yap before returning to Hawaiʻi. Specific details of the voyage such as those present during Na ‘Ohana Holo Moana are unavailable as Nā Kālai Waʻa does not make similar logs publicly available.

= Nāmāhoe =

Nāmāhoe is a traditional voyaging canoe based out of Nawiliwili, Hawaii, built by Nā Kālai Waʻa o Kauaʻi and launched on September 10, 2016. The canoe is a 72 foot double hulled canoe built and rigged in traditional Hawaiian style. The name Nāmāhoe is the Hawaiian word for the constellation Gemini and is described by the Polynesian Voyaging Society as "...the guiding constellation from Oʻahu to Kauaʻi." Nā Kālai Waʻa o Kauaʻi reports that Nāmāhoe has made sail 10 times the longest of which was a two week round trip educational voyage to Oʻahu and back coinciding with the conclusion of the circumnavigation of the earth by Hōkūleʻa between June 12, 2017 and June 25, 2017.