WAAN AELON KEIN is a walap, a voyaging canoe, from Enewetak, one of the Marshall Islands. He (the large voyaging canoes are all male unlike European female ships and boats) is about 52 foot long over the stems and the beam overall is 25 feet

The Marshallese sailors were particularly skilled and Robin Herbst describes some of the techniques used to train young Marshall sailors: "Physical artifacts are used as mnemonic devices for...teaching the principles of swell refraction and intersection, and are used by the islanders as crucial navigational tools