[ml/nj]

canoe journeys over the vast southeastern Pacific

I guess I still have trouble believing this. It's nice that moderns, knowing Hawaii is there, and that a rescue team is standing by, might make the trip, but making a trip over a couple of thousand miles of open ocean in a canoe (of any sort) and then RETURNING, and doing it again with women is just to much for me to believe.

ML/NJ

[VOA]

making a trip over a couple of thousand miles of open ocean in a canoe
(of any sort) and then RETURNING, and doing it again with women is
just to much for me to believe.

The presence of the females probably is why the trip actually did happen.

The men had to get the navigation right, otherwise they'd have gone
crazy hearing "But you never stop for directions!" for the
one-thousandth time.

(Yes, I am being facetious!)