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Crew List 1999 Rapa Nui

Hawai'i to Nukuhiva
June 15, 1999 departure

Captain and Navigator: Bruce Blankenfeld

Apprentice navigator: Pi'ikea Miller

Watch Captain: Dennis Chun (Kaua'i)

Watch Captain: Terry Hee (O'ahu)

Watch Captain: Leon Sterling (Maui)

Russell Amimoto (O'ahu)

Desmon Antone (Maui)

Darcy Attisani (Kaua'i)

Kekama Helm (Moloka'i)

Ka'au McKenney (O'ahu)

Atwood Makanani (Kaua'i)

Hau'oli Smith (O'ahu; Sausalito, CA

Wallace Wong (Hawai'i)


Nukuhiva to Mangareva
August 14, 1999 departure

Captain Navigator: Chad Babayan (Hawai'i)

Apprentice Navigator: Moana Doi (O'ahu)

Apprentice Navigator: Catherine Fuller (O'ahu)

Student Navigator: Aldon Kim (O'ahu)

Watch Captain: Terry Hee (O'ahu)

Watch Captain: Mel Paoa (Moloka'i)

Watch Captain: Tava Taupu (Nukuhiva / Hawai'i)

Protocol Officer: Kaniela Akaka (Hawai'i)

Tim Gilliom (Maui)

Kealoha Hoe (O'ahu)

Aeronwy Polo (Hawai'i)

Mona Shintani (Ni'ihau)

Gary Suzuki (Lana'i)

Nalani Wilson (O'ahu)

Gary Yuen (O'ahu)

PVS Education Coordinator Dennis Kawaharada (O'ahu) and video cameraman Hugh Gentry joined the crew of Hokule'a for the Marquesas interisland sails.

Mangareva to Rapa Nui
mid-September 1999 departure

Captain and Navigator: Nainoa Thompson

Navigator: Chad Babayan

Navigator: Bruce Blankenfeld

Photographer and videographer: Sonny Ahuna (O'ahu)

Shantell Ching (O'ahu

Terry Hee (O'ahu)

Mel Paoa (Molokai'i)

Ben Tamura, M.D. (O'ahu

Tava Taupu (Nukuhiva/Hawai'i)

Mike Tongg (O'ahu)

Max Yarawamai (Micronesia/Hawai'i)

Aaron Young (O'ahu)

Rapa Nui to Tahiti
November 1999 departure

Navigator: Bruce Blankenfeld

Captain: Wally Froiseth

Na'alehu Anthony (O'ahu)

Bob Bee (O'ahu)

Blane Chong (O'ahu)

Dennis Chun (Kaua'i)

Terry Hee (O'ahu

Nalani Kaneakua (Kaua'i)

Kawika Crivello (Moloka'i)

Kealoha Hoe (O'ahu)

Kimo Lyman (O'ahu)

Kawai Warren (Kaua'i)

Kamaki Worthington (O'ahu)

 

Tahiti to Hawai'i
December 1999 departure

Navigator: Nainoa Thompson

Navigator: Shantell Ching

Snake Ah Hee

Chad Baybayan

Pomaikalani Bertelmann

Bruce Blankenfeld

Sam Low

Joey Mallot

Kahualaulani Mick

Ka'iulani Murphy

Kau'i Pelekane

"Tava" Teikihe'epo Taupu

Mike Tongg

Dr. Patrice Ming-Lei Tim Sing

Kona Woolsey

This is a list of names. Sources are the Polynesian Voyaging Society, the PVS Archives and other documents. No claim to accuracy is made.

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