CREWMEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Saki Uchida
Saki Uchida tightening up the port sheets.
Crew Profile: Saki Uchida
PVS Member Since 2007
HOMETOWN:
Yokosuka, Japan
PRIMARY DUTY:
Assistant Quartermaster
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:
Crewmember
WORLDWIDE VOYAGE LEGS SAILED:
Leg 6: Waitangi to Auckland, 2014 Sāmoa, Leg 5: Samoa to Aotearoa, Leg 4: Sāmoa, Leg 3: Tahiti to Sāmoa, 2014 Tahiti
Saki is originally from Yokosuka Haema, Japan and started as a volunteer with the Polynesian Voyaging Society. When she first came to Hawaii she knew no English and by the time she took her first sail, she knew two words of English, hi and sorry.
When she came to the Polynesian Voyaging Society Nainoa introduced her to Haunani and Jason, and told them she wanted to learn navigation. She watched everyones moves aboard the canoes and tried her best to follow them.
With her newfound family and passion, Saki learned English and became a valued crewmember for the Worldwide Voyage. Saki went to Honolulu Community College and learned boat repair and small fabrication.
Saki was an apprentice navigator aboard the Hikianalia on her first international leg of the Worldwide Voyage. And even though she misses her home in Japan, she is where she wants to be in this moment and living her dream with her chance to live a once in a lifetime dream.
When she came to the Polynesian Voyaging Society Nainoa introduced her to Haunani and Jason, and told them she wanted to learn navigation. She watched everyones moves aboard the canoes and tried her best to follow them.
With her newfound family and passion, Saki learned English and became a valued crewmember for the Worldwide Voyage. Saki went to Honolulu Community College and learned boat repair and small fabrication.
Saki was an apprentice navigator aboard the Hikianalia on her first international leg of the Worldwide Voyage. And even though she misses her home in Japan, she is where she wants to be in this moment and living her dream with her chance to live a once in a lifetime dream.
Saki Uchida: Related Posts
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Life Size Star Compass
Master navigator Hector Busby created a life size star compass as a gift to future navigators and sailors in Aotearoa and throughout the Pacific – all for the continuation of voyaging. -
Crew Blog | Saki Uchida: Kapu Nā Keiki - Cherish the Young, Teach the Young, Care for the Young
inI believe kids are the only hope for the future. All the physical things will be gone someday, but our kids will be left along with natural environment that we are going to leave. I want to leave it better than what we have right now. -
Mālama Waʻa in Aotearoa
As their mālama honua journey throughout the Pacific comes to a close the crews made time to mālama the waʻa that have sustained them – over 3,500 miles thus far! -
Update | November 23, 2014
Crewmembers welcome the Whangarei community onboard Hōkūleʻa and HIkianalia as education outreach continues. -
“Konnichiwa! Aloha!”
inCrewmember Saki Uchida shows that a passion for exploration and voyaging can touch people in countries around the world. -
Crew Profile: Saki Uchida
Hailing from Yokosuka, Japan, Saki Uchida is one of the most seasoned crewmembers having sailed from Hawai'i through French Polynesia to Samoa now onto Aotearoa.
