Sailing Experience

From NZD $150.00
  • Duration: 180 Minutes (approx.)
  • Location: Gisborne
  • Product code: PCGDLA

Experience our waka on the ocean - join us on board the Waka Hourua ‘Tairāwhiti’ (historic canoe) for an experience like no other.

Get involved, “buddy up” with crew members to learn traditional sailing and wayfinding skills out in the bay. We’ll need all hands on deck  to steer and sail our 22 m / 72 ft waka!

  • Meet and greet with host

  • Traditional Māori welcome

  • “Buddy up” with a crew member

  • Head out on the bay for a sail on the waka

  • Learn how to man the “hoe” steering paddle, hoist the sails and tack!

  • Stories of the region’s voyaging history and its Māori ancestors, as told by our local storyteller

  • Question time before you depart the waka as a member of our whanau (family)