The Hokule‘a will sail to Hawaii island this week for a two-month visit as part of the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s “Mahalo, Hawaii” sail.

During the visit the society will offer free presentations, talk-story sessions, canoe tours, volunteer opportunities and family-friendly events. The sail is a way of sharing lessons learned from the Hokule‘a’s three-year Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage, which ended last summer.

Thousands of public and private school students will have an opportunity to tour the canoe and participate in educational activities focusing on wayfinding and voyaging.

The Hokule‘a is expected to sail from Oahu for the Big Island as early as Thursday, depending on the weather, and arrive three days later in Milolii. The crew will leave the next day for Kona, where the Hokule‘a will remain moored until the end of March.

In April the canoe will be in Hilo, and in the first week of May it will be in Kawaihae.