Building Canoes with Tim Gilliom of Maui

We get a rare look into the building of a traditional voyaging canoe as Tim Gilliom, boat maker for Maui's Hui o Wa'a Kaulua (the Assembly of the Double-Hull Canoe), gives us a tour of the Mo'okiha o Pi'ilani.

[johnrobinson]

What a gorgeous canoe!
The Hawaiian outrigger canoe I think is the most beautiful thing on the water. I helped make a few racing canoes in The Fiberglass Shop at 404 Piikoi back in the 70s. At the time we were making canoes from a mold taken off the Malia. And there's still plenty of those same canoes in Hilo Bay used by Outrigger Canoe clubs where I paddle today

[liwoszarchaeologist]

Very glad that Nainoa helped get this Wa'a to safe shores during the disaster at Lahaina.

[seascapeasia]

Wow!!! Magnificent. Well done guys. Congratulations.

[mbv_]

Beautiful job!!!

Some one pumping most of the time?! Wow!

[trebledog]

To a sailor the sweetest words one can hear a woman ask is, "What's a jib?" Hahaha

[Antipodean]

Sound a tad optimistic on the weight. What do you think the all up sailing weight would be?

[josephesposito]

Beautiful boat/canoe but don’t you mean 30, 000 pounds?

[maxpruett]

I need a teacher I really want to see the world by sailing. A mid American man from missouri.

[gabrielsoul]

Stuning boat. Wharram tried for 60 years to build a boat like this one and failed. You did it in a few years...congratulations..

[TMHN]

How much would something like this cost?

[chrisknight]

This is all very pretty but what's the point of copying the prototypes?
Perptuating the culture is one thing but evolving is vital; that's what got the craft to the level it is. Rebuilding the short comings like constant pumping, dual sweeps, lack of sun/rain shelter seems bizarre. A replica belongs in a museum. A working vessel that snubs innovation is looking for trouble. I've travelled the Pacific in Wharram cats and modern catamarans and trimarans and have enough respect for the ocean and my life and that of the crew to not go messing around in an artefact.