1973-1976 - THE EXPERIMENT AND THE FIRST THREE YEARS
• draft proposing an experiment (PDF, 17 pages)
• Petition and Charter of Incorporation
• A voyage into Hawai'i's Past by Ben Finney, Polynesian Voyaging Society News, August 1975 (1st 2 pages only)
• fundraising - Honolulu Advertiser, November 30, 1973

1974 - THE YEAR OF THE CANOE
(?) fundraising letter
(?) crew sponsor program letter
• educational activities
• canoe building - Sunday Star Bulletin & Advertiser
• Kamehameha Schools canoe builders
• 1974 the Griffiths proposal

1975 - YEAR OF THE MEN
• progress report and request for parts assembly San Souci Beach, Waikiki
• page 1 Polynesian Voyaging Society News, October 1975
(?) Honolulu Star-Bulletin editorial by A.A. Smyser
• canoe launch committees - Lu'au and crew ceremony
• canoe launch oli translated by Mary Pukui
• Kamehameha Schools mea oli
• canoe launch guest list
• ticket and sample invitation letter
• canoe launch ceremony draft, March 4, 1975

1976 - YEAR OF THE VOYAGE
— PREPARATION
• Herb Kane summary of activities -Honolulu Advertiser, no date
• letter from the President, Dr. Ben F. Finney, Polynesian Voyaging Society News, February 1976
• Hokule'a crew application form
• Hokule'a crew selection criteria
• Hokule'a crew short list notice
• Hokule'a crew list
• crew - Honolulu Advertiser, February 9, 1976
• National Geographic Society, WQED instructions
• shippng articles
• sailing orders
• communications
• Meotai escort vessel
• navigation log and chart sample Tahiti to Hawai'i
• food project recipes
• coconut weaving

— THE VOYAGE TO TAHITI AND BACK
• special issue, Polynesian Voyaging Society News, April 1976
• first 24 hours - Honolulu Advertiser, May 3, 1976
• to Tahiti - Honolulu Advertiser, June 2, 1976
• from Tahiti - Honolulu Advertiser, July 12, 1976
• triumphant welcome back - Honolulu Advertiser, July 27, 1976
• What it really was like on the Hokule‘a by Mary Cooke, Honolulu Advertiser, August 13, 1976
• ki'i - Honolulu Advertiser, December 6, 1976

— THE EXPERIMENT COMPLETED. EVALUATIONS FROM THE FOLLOWING:.
• the psychiatrist. the navigator, Mau Piailug.
• the Captain - Honolulu Advertiser, August 13, 1976
• Ben Finney - Honolulu Star-Bulletin, December 23, 1976
• Herb Kane - Polynesian Voyaging Society letter

1976-1979 EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS
• the 1976 Children's Book Project (PDF, 6 p.)
• the Kealaikahiki experiment, April 1977 (PDF, 7pages)
• Kamehameha Schools education grant
• education committee activities 1976-77, 1978-79 (PDF, 29 pages)
• 1977-78 education committee report (PDF, 11 pages)

1977
• Congressional Record entry by U.S. Representative Cec Heftel
• Hokule‘a designer's view of voyage by Rudy Choy, Honolulu Advertiser, February 11, 1977

1977 -HOKULE'A SAILS AGAIN
• Hokule'a sails again Honolulu Advertiser, March 31, 1977
• to try the ancient route Kealaikahiki articles from the 2 newspapers, 1977
• Hilo aloha Hawaii Tribune Herald, April 25, 1977

Photo credit: Michael A. Tongg