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A great place to feel this is the USS Hornet in Alameda. This actual ship that you are on, made of steel and loaded with analog electronics, sailed to the far side of the Pacific and back. So much metal, steel, hydraulics, and electrical systems. It made it out and back. Not all the ships did. Mighty ships just like this one, with people like you, did not make it back.

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You could also try HMS Victory in the UK or the Vasa in Sweden (other really old ships are available and some are still sailing).

You might also note that the inhabitants of Hawaii had to have got there somehow and its 2000 odd miles to what is now the US mainland and still quite a long way from anywhere else, eg Tahiti.

Hawaii natives are Polynesians! They came the same way New Zealanders did by island hopping in the Pacific. We can only imagine but I guess most of those who tried it died in the middle of nowhere, only a few must have made it, but that’s enough.

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