$2,600.00
Oahu artist Francis Pimmel is an award-winning craftsman, specializing in scale reconstructions of canoes that once sailed on the waterways of the Polynesian Triangle. The work of Francis Pimmel is of the highest quality, with attention to historical accuracy, and of the finest construction and finish.
Through dedicated research, Francis has become a legitimate expert on the making of ancient Hawaiian craft, especially some of the more colorful canoes of the early twentieth century. Francis has chosen to use no paints in his fine wooden models but rather to inlay beautiful naturally colored woods at painstaking effort in their stead, using Koa, Milo, Ulu (Breadfruit), Lemonwood, and Primavera as well as Ebony, Cocobolo, and exotic Tamarind wood.
This is a scale replica of the Hokulea voyaging canoe first used by to sail from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1976. Since then, it has been used on nine separate voyages to Micornesia, Polynesia, Japan, Canada, and the mainland USA. This model is made with a wooden sail. Of course, all the rigging is proportionate. Scaled down to a 12” size.
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