Holmes, Tommy (Personal Name)

His The Hawaiian canoe, c1981: t.p. (Tommy Holmes) jkt. (freelance researcher and consultant specializing in the marine and maritime ethnohistory of Hawaii and the Pacific Islands)

Hawaiian Voyaging Traditions, viewed online June 1, 2017: Tommy Holmes, a founder (1945-1993) (On August 23, 1993, Tommy Holmes, one of the founders of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, died of a heart attack while paddling an outrigger canoe off Waikiki. One of his lasting legacies is The Hawaiian Canoe, the most comprehensive modern study of the subject, published in 1981 and reprinted in a second edition in September, 1993. On August 28, his ashes were carried out to sea by the Hokule'a and scattered off Waikiki.) http://archive.hokulea.com/index/da_crew/tommy_holmes.html