Lehua Kamalu
Hawaiian voyaging captain and navigator with the Polynesian Voyaging Society
Lehua Kamalu (Hawaiian voyaging captain and navigator with the Polynesian Voyaging Society) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Polynesian navigation, Hōkūleʻa.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Polynesian navigation
Kamalu says she is a different person at sea and frames voyaging as a return to nature rather than merely an escape.
“I like to think it's a re-immersion. It's actually a return”
TED Radio Hour: Escaping the modern world and your noisy mind (Nov 6, 2026) · Listen from 42:42
Kamalu avoids the term celestial navigation because navigating by nature also depends on reading waves and wind.
“a critical element of navigating by nature is looking down to what's in the ocean and understanding the wave patterns”
TED Radio Hour: Escaping the modern world and your noisy mind (Nov 6, 2026) · Listen from 36:26
Hōkūleʻa
Kamalu describes Hokule'a as a 62-foot, double-masted, sail-powered ancestor of the modern catamaran.
“So the very large Hokule itself is 62 feet long, and it's about 21 feet wide, and it is a double-masted canoe”
TED Radio Hour: Escaping the modern world and your noisy mind (Nov 6, 2026) · Listen from 38:42
Appearances
Escaping the modern world and your noisy mindTED Radio Hour · Nov 6, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with Pico Iyer, Sarah Edmondson and Lehua Kamalu, and airs Shonda Rhimes's talk, about escape, silence, cults, voyaging and burnout.
Often appears with
- Manoush Zomorodi · 1 shared episode
- Pico Iyer · 1 shared episode
- Sarah Edmondson · 1 shared episode
- Shonda Rhimes · 1 shared episode