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The creation of a new board therefore obeyed a highly ritualised code. Before the tree was cut down a sacred red fish or "kumu" was buried among its roots as an offering to the gods. The finished product, with a blunt rounded nose and a squared-off tail, was smoothed down on the beach using granulated coral, polished with the root of the ti plant to give it a dark lustre, and finally dressed in kukui nut oil.

Before anyone paddled out, Hawaiians beat the surface of the sea with long-stemmed seaweed called "pohuehue" and prayed: "Arise, arise you great surfs from Kahiki, The powerful, curling waves, arise with the pohuehue, Well up long raging surf."

When Captain Cook reached Hawaii in 1778 he named it “the Sandwich Islands.”