Kavenga3

Comment by Brandon Gamble on January 23, 2012 at 3:42am

Man I absolutely love your boat! Amazing work... what does her name mean? 

Comment by Ralf on January 23, 2012 at 6:50am

Hello Brandon,

Thanks for your comment. Her name KAVENGA is a polynesian term which means:

 

The star path, the succession of rising or setting guiding stars down which one steers, was known as the avei`a by the Tahitians... .... this is analogus to the kaveinga of the Tongans and the kavenga of Tikopia...

This is a succession of stars toward which the bow of the conoe is pointed. Each is used as a guide when it is low in the heaven; as it rises up overhead it is discarded and the course is reset by the next one in the series. One after another these stars rise till dawn...

quoted from: David Lewis: We, the navigators; page 47; Honolulu 1972

Comment by Rogerio Martin on January 23, 2012 at 7:15pm

Kavenga is almost ok......

good winds (bons ventos)

Comment by Marc LaFrance on February 19, 2012 at 8:28am

Ralf,

Congratulations on a beautiful job. You've done some very nice work. I have to confess that I'm about to steal your design for turning the hulls over..

Thanks

Comment by Ralf on February 20, 2012 at 1:27am

Marc, thanks. The turn-over technique works really well and no danger to damage the work.

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