The mainland that the
Polynesians came from was Asia -- or at the very east, their
sailing technology came from there.

and



There's a marked similarity between the Canadian West Coast
canoes and Polynesian canoes, for example.

Well, lessee... If the Canadian West Coasties came over the Bering bridge,
then it would make little difference to the Polynesian canoes if they were
directly from Asia, or if they were from S America by way of Bering, since
technology was slow to change in them days.

Steve "my 2 cents"