Sentence examples for master navigator from inspiring English sources

His studies culminated in his initiation as a master navigator (palu) in the Weriyeng school of navigation during the revered pwo ceremony presided over by Angora.

At the tiller is master navigator Tua Pittman, a fiftysomething Cook Islander.

He was a palu, a master navigator, one of the last experts in the ancient art of Pacific Ocean wayfaring.

The book is necessarily episodic in construction but Yong keeps a firm hold of the various threads, paying out his narrative like a master navigator.

Many of the guests and half of the crew, including the softly spoken captain and Cook Island's only other master navigator, Peia Patai, are sleeping below deck.

Once a star is identified via its location in a constellation, the master navigator checks with the compass to confirm where it rises and sets.

Like other Polynesian peoples, Samoans were master navigators, boatbuilders, and fishers; every aspect of their society was related in some way to maritime life.

Now he is one of a handful of master navigators working in the Pacific, sailing the Marumaru Atua, a new canoe built in traditional style.

Disney worked for six years on the film, establishing an Oceanic Story Trust made up of people from all walks of Pacific Islands life, from anthropologists and linguists to master navigators and tattooists.

Five Native Hawaiians and eleven other people were inducted into pwo as master navigators, including Nainoa Thompson and Mau's son Sesario Sewralur.

To a master traditional navigator like Tua Pittman from Raratonga in the Cook Islands, a canoe is much more than just a means of transport.