![17th century Engraving: Priests travelling across Kealakekua Bay](http://static.sciencelearn.org.nz/images/images/000/000/700/full/Early-Polynesian-sailing-canoes20160110-1397-dg3mjl.jpg?1674164740)
Early Polynesian sailing canoes were built for seafaring voyages. Waka hourua built since the 1990s were designed in a similar way to explore the Pacific Ocean in the manner of the forefathers.
Engraving ‘Priests travelling across Kealakekua Bay’, by John Webber (1752–1793), artist aboard Cook’s ship.