Nainoa Thompson

Charles Nainoa Thompson (born March 11, 1953) is an American navigator and the president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. He is the first native Hawaiian to practice traditional Polynesian navigational methods since the 14th century, having crewed two double-hulled canoes (the Hōkūleʻa and the Hawaiʻiloa) across the Polynesian islands without the aid of Western instruments.