 He continues : Take, as an example, the anthropologist Ben Finney. Challenging Sharp’s assertion that Polynesia was settled accidentally by unskilled navigators, Finney became a leading advocate that Polynesia was intentionally settled by Polynesians highly skilled in the art of open-ocean navigation, able to travel across thousands of miles guided by the stars and waves. In 1973, he co-founded the Polynesian Voyaging Society and served as its first president. The Polynesian Voyaging Society became the lead organization in building the Hokule’a, a 62-foot-long double hull canoe. He was a part of the initial crew that sailed the Hokule’a by celestial navigation to Tahiti in 1976. Later he helped crew the trips to New Zealand (Aotearoa) in 1985 and Rarotonga in 1992. Quoting Nainoa Thompson, the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s current president and a prominent figure in the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance movement, the voyage of the Hokule’a “changed the whole identity of the Hawaiian people. We went from being castaways . . . to being children of the world’s greatest navigators, . . . We owe it to our visionaries . . . and Ben was the first” (Kubota 2018).
<meaning-changed>  He continues : Take, as an example, the anthropologist Ben Finney. Challenging Sharp’s assertion that Polynesia was settled accidentally by unskilled navigators, Finney became a leading advocate that Polynesia was intentionally settled by Polynesians highly skilled in the art of open-ocean navigation, able to travel across thousands of miles guided by the stars and waves. In 1973, he co-founded the Polynesian Voyaging Society and served as its first president. The Polynesian Voyaging Society became the lead organization in building the Hokule’a, a 62-foot-long double hull canoe. He was a part of the initial crew that sailed the Hokule’a by celestial navigation to Tahiti in 1976. Later he helped crew the trips to New Zealand (Aotearoa) in 1985 and Rarotonga in 1992. Quoting Nainoa Thompson, the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s current president and a prominent figure in the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance movement, the voyage of the Hokule’a “changed the whole identity of the Hawaiian people. We went from being castaways . . . to being children of the world’s greatest navigators, . . . We owe it to our visionaries . . . and Ben was the first” (Kubota 2018).
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