Ben Finney

Ben Rudolph Finney (i hānau ʻia ma ka lā 1 ʻOkakopa 1933 ma San Diego, Kaleponi, i make ma ka lā 23 Mei 2017 ma Honolulu) he loea ʻepekema kanaka ʻAmelika, he mea kākau, a he kumu aʻo. Ua kaulana ʻo ia no kāna hana e pili ana i ka moʻokūʻauhau o nā mokuʻāina Pākīpika, ka hoʻōla hou ʻana i ka holo moana kahiko Hawaiʻi, a me ka noiʻi ʻana i ke ʻano o ka noho ʻana o ke kanaka ma ka lewa lipo.

Ka Moʻolelo

He keiki ʻo Finney na kekahi pailaka Pūʻali Moku Kaua ʻAmelika. Ua loaʻa iā ia kona kēkelē laepua ma ka mōʻaukala, ka ʻeconomics, a me ka anthropology mai ke Kulanui o Kaleponi ma Berkeley i ka makahiki 1955. Ma hope o kona lawelawe ʻana i ka Pūʻali Moku Kaua ʻAmelika, ua hele ʻo ia i Hawaiʻi, kahi āna i loaʻa ai kona kēkelē laeoʻo ma ka anthropology mai ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi i ka makahiki 1959. Ua puka ʻo ia me kona kēkelē laeʻula mai ke Kulanui o Harvard i ka makahiki 1964.

Ka Hana Noiʻi

Ka Heʻe Nalu

ʻO kāna palapala noi'i laeoʻo, "Hawaiian Surfing: a Study of Cultural Change", ka paʻa mua ʻana o kāna puke Surfing: The Sport of Hawaiian Kings i kākau pū ʻia me James D. Houston i ka makahiki 1966. Ua lilo ʻo ia i mea hoʻomaopopo mua loa i ka mōʻaukala heʻe nalu Hawaiʻi mai ke kenekulia 17.

Ka Holo Moana

I ka makahiki 1973, ua hoʻokumu ʻo Finney i ka Polynesian Voyaging Society me Herb Kāne a me Tommy Holmes. Ua hana lākou i ka Hōkūleʻa, he waʻa kaulua kahiko Hawaiʻi, no ka hōʻike ʻana i ka hiki i nā kūpuna Hawaiʻi ke holo moana lōʻihi me ka ʻike kupuna. Ma mua o ka Hōkūleʻa, ua hana ʻo ia i ka waʻa Nalehia ("Nā Mea Akamai") i ke kenekulia 1960, ka mea i kōkua i ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ka Hoʻōla Hou ʻAna O Nā Mea Hawaiʻi.

Ka Lewa Lipo

Mai ka makahiki 1994 a i ka makahiki 2003, ua noho ʻo ia ma ke ʻano he luna hoʻokele o ka māhele Space and Society ma ka International Space University. Ua noiʻi ʻo ia i ke ʻano o ka noho ʻana o ke kanaka ma ka lewa lipo a me ka hoʻonohonoho ʻana i nā kaiāulu ma ka lewa.

Nā Puke

• Surfing: The Sport of Hawaiian Kings (1966)
• Pacific Navigation and Voyaging (1976)
• Hōkūleʻa: The Way to Tahiti (1979)
• Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience (1985)
• Voyage of Rediscovery (1994)
• Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors (2003)

Nā Hōʻailona

• Ka Royal Institute of Navigation Bronze Medal (1994)
• Ka French University of the Pacific Medal (1995)
• Ka Tsiolkovsky Medal (1995)
• Ka University of Hawaiʻi Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research (1997)
• Ka Hawaiʻi Book Publisher's Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award (2004)
• Ke kēkelē laeʻula hanohano mai ke Kulanui o French Polynesia (2007)

Nā Kūmole

Nā Loulou I Waho

• Polynesian Voyaging Society
• Bishop Museum Archives

E nānā pū

• Hōkūleʻa
• Herb Kāne
• Polynesian Voyaging Society
• Hoʻōla Hou ʻAna O Ka Hawaiʻi

He ʻōmuku kēia mea. Inā hiki iā ʻoe ke ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, e kōkua mai i ka holomua ʻana i kēia mea.