Chad Kalepa Baybayan, Seafarer Who Sailed Using the Stars, Dies at 64
Chad Kalepa Baybayan, a revered Hawaiian seafarer who was a torchbearer for the art of “wayfinding,” which ancestral Polynesian sailors used to navigate the Pacific Ocean by studying the stars, trade winds and flight patterns of birds, died on April 8 at a friend’s home in Seattle. He was 64. His daughter Kala Tanaka said…