SAILING LESSONS, by SAM MONET, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mr. Monet is an experienced international racing catamaran skipper, windsurfer and surfer.

Learn Basic sailing skills, knots, advanced rigging, intermediate, advanced racing, safety, tuning, trim, helm, tactics and racing rules.

Integrate helmsmanship, leadership, sail trim, speed, waves, and tactics in your performance.

Good habits make good sailors

prepare, communicate, practice

Reasonable Rates:
Email: monets001@hawaii.rr.com for schedule

FREE LESSONS to the following:

• Sea Scouts
• High School sailing team members
• Kids from 12 to 16 years old
• Underprivileged youth
• Troubled Youth

Migration Map, Hawaiian Chief, Hawaiian Surfer1890, Kahanamoku Brothers 1928

Streaming: Cecilio & Kapono, Sailin'

History of surfing and sailing in Hawaii: According to Hawaiian lore, the first surfer was a woman, PELE the fire goddess.

In the early first century AD, when Roman galleons prowled the mediterranean inland sea, Polynesians in high speed double canoes (catamaran) with efficient lateen sail rigs were crossing the Pacific, island hopping.

Hawaiians voyaged to America pre Cook contact in 1778. According to the chant of the Great Hawaiian Chief Kualii (d. 1730) [ Fornander An Account of the Polynesian Race pg 284] Kualii visited a land EAST of Hawaii which was greater in size than any island, where the men of this land are NOT Hawaiians, a land of a strange language , and the men of this land are white men. Kahiki in the Hawaiian language is a general term designating any and all foreign lands outside the Hawaiian group. This land was the Americas and the haole were most likely Spanish.

Contrary to common belief, English Captain Cook was not the first white foreigner to land on HawaiiÕs shore in 1778. In AD. 1525, Spanish Captain Saavedra and his sister survived shipwrecked and intermarried with natives in Kona. Other Spanish navigators reported in their logs that upon visiting the (Hawai'ian) islands in 1542, they found among the natives Norsemen and shipwrecked Spanish sailors, adopted and intermarried with the natives.

Then in AD. 1555, according to the archives of the Colonial Office of Spain, Spanish Captain Juan Gaetano logged his voyage to the Hawaiian Islands called by the Spanish Islas de Mesa located between 18 and 20 degrees North and 135-139 degrees West; the discrepency regarding longitude (nearly 20 degrees) count for little where dead reckoning was employed to determine longitude. (Fornander: An Account of the Polynesian Race p. 359).

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