Honaunau Display Improvement

Honaunau Display Improvement Project

The Honaunau, a 33-foot solid koa fishing canoe built in 1900, is one of the most cherished assets of the Maui Historical Society. This one hundred year old, hand carved fishing canoe is made of one solid koa log from the forests of the island of Hawai`i, and its calabash shaped hull marks it as one of the last koa fishing canoes of this type made in Hawai`i. The Honaunau enjoys an interesting history ranging from its original use as a fishing canoe plying the coastal waters of Kona, to a beach boy canoe in Waikiki during the 1930s and 1940s, to a training canoe for the Kahului Canoe Club, to its current home on display in the Canoe Hale at the Bailey House Museum in Wailuku.

Through funding from the Atherton Family Foundation, Cooke Foundation Limited, Zadoc W. and Lawrence N. Brown Foundation, and Brown-Kobayashi, the Honaunau was completely restored in 1998. Similarly, a grant from the A & B Foundation funded the restoration of Duke Kahanamoku’s surfboard (c. 1910), the D.T. Fleming Outrigger Canoe Model, and canoe paddles, in 2002, and a grant from Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation funded the construction and installation of the Ama and I`ako (outrigger) in 2003. Atherton Family Foundation and the Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation funded the storyboards.

Kip Brown & Chuck Turner

The Rotary Club of Wailuku selected Bailey House for their Centennial Project, and completed the much needed repairs to the Canoe Hale and the secure installation of Duke Kahanamoku's surfboard.

Ted, Hilton, & Tony working hard

Mahalo List

Rotary Club of Wailuku

Kip Brown
Cynthia Greenwell
Ted Harris
Hal Jobe
Tom Reed
Chuck Turner
Hilton Unemori
Toni Woolley
Priscilla Yamamura

Foundations

Alexander & Baldwin Foundation
Atherton Family Foundation
Cooke Foundation, Limited
Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation
Zadoc W. & Lawrence N. Brown Foundation

Businesses/Organizations/Individuals

Brown-Kobayashi
Keola Sequeira
Kihei Canoe Club
MCCC