Thursday, June 22, 2006: On his most recent email, Chris says farewell to Vietnam and recounts his story of nearly becoming a truck's grill ornament.

Saturday, May 12, 2006: Chris sends an email update about his trip around the other half of the world on his motorcycle. Read about it here in an email from Chris and then check out the photos. In just 2 days, it will be the 1 year anniversary since he set sail!

Kelly and Richard are selling their home. Check it out on http://www.14623Flatbush.com/

Monday, November 21st: Photo Gallery working again. I'll get photos up soon. Right click here to Save this target file of the Fiji photos in a zip file.

Wednesday November 16th: Land sweet land... read about it here in an email from Chris.

Tuesday, November 14th: Chris, Nichole and Peter are about 100 miles off the shore of Bundaberg (about 200 miles north of Brisbane). They are experiencing rough seas and high winds unfortuantely for them.

Thursday, October 6th: Greg left for Italy today (from Syndy, he arrived 2 weeks earlier from Fiji) so now the boat is back to the original crew. He landed an opportunity to teach English near Venice. Good luck to the crew and Greg!

Tuesday, August 23rd 1 PM PDT: I talked a bit with Chris and Greg today. They are in Fiji. They are going to check out one of the local islands today, but they'll be in Fiji for another two months. Peter's Dad has joined them on the boat. They should be in Australia by the end of November/beginning of December. Bonnie will be joining them for vacation on the 2nd week of September.

They have a local phone again email the address above if you'd like the number. This calling card has a $0.25 rate to Fiji: http://www.tel3advantage.com/?AgentNumber=851289 It's easy to use because you can set it up to recognize your phone number when you call so you don't have to enter a pin. Check out the prices for any of your other international calling.

Friday, August 26th: Chris sent an email.

Monday, August 22nd 10PM PDT: Location S 18d 17', W 172d 27' Slow going, crappy wind blowing north and headwind. The map below highlights their Tonga destination and where they are now. They are about 80 miles away.

Saturday, August 20th 10:51 PM PDT Location 19d S 02', 170d W 05: Sunday update. Talked to them around 2pm and they said they were getting nothign but headwind as the forecasts showed. I updated them that the headwind will continue, unforunately, for another 12-24 hours.

Friday, August 19th, 5:30 PM PDT Location 18d S 46', 168d W 46'   Here's the photos from the emails in case any of you missed them.

Wednesday, August 17th, 8:45 PM PDT Location -19.1000 -164.4333 And they are off... again! They were actually off and sailing a couple days ago, but I didn't have any time for website updates until tonight. Then Chris' friend (Chris) called me tonight and gave me a "what the hey?", so I was prompted enough to stay up late and get this updated! Aloha, Chris!

Give me the weekend and I'll get the pictures up too... Also, by the way, Andrew flew back home so just Chris, Greg and their friends Peter and Nichole are out there.

Saturday, June 18th, 8PM PDT Location -11.7333 -140.4667

Friday, June 17th, 7:53PM PDT: .Location: -9.4333 -140.2167 They are off for a three day sail to the Tuamotu islands.

Thursday, June 16th: Emails came in to give us some news. Click Here to read them from Chris and Drew.

I guess we'll just have to assume they made it. Andrew was text messaging on Saturday about flying to the Marquesas from Tahiti. Greg flew out after Andrew mid Saturday. I'll let you know if I get any updates or email me if you hear from them.

Saturday, June 11th: - 4:15: Location: 8.6667 South, 139.5000 WestChris called saying they were going slower than expected and weren't going to hit land on Saturday (about 30 miles off shore). I text messaged Andrew the news and I haven't heard much since.

Friday, June 10th - 5:50PM: Chris left me a voicemail: "We ran out of f***in' diesel and we're going f***in' slow right now with no wind but we expect to hit land tomorrow".

Wednesday, June 8th: They are almost there! I heard Thursday (but no coordinates) that they are about 215 miles from the Marquesas destination. Chris left me a message Saturday that everything is going well, "Just cruisin' ".

Thanks for all the banner clicks... got 40 this weekend. Also, I put a few highlights of our vacation up...

Thursday, June 2nd: Wind still going, they are going south... headwind sucks.

Wednesday, June 1st: We heard from Chris early in the afternoon saying he was getting some funky currents going on. I couldn't see anything fishy on the weather forcasts except that they are nearing the Doldrums so that is probably why. The wind forcasted to blow towards the North-West and the current showed flowing West.... but he was experiencing something differnt (Currents flowing north.) I didn't get any coordinates. They are on Andrew's voicemail.

Tuesday, May 31st - 5:00 PM: Those guys are hauling butt.

Monday, May 30th- 5:00 PM: WOW! 321 miles in 2 days! I guess the forecast was right about the 15 knot winds. That's a record for this trip.

Saturday, May 28 - 5:00 PM: To date, they haven't caught any fish (pathetic!). They did repair the torn sail though and are back in business. Andrew said something about a "main hallicut" breaking, but I don't know what he was saying. It had something to do with going up the mast to fix it I think.

Friday, May 27 - 5:00 PM: They got in another 100+ Mile Day as the winds have picked up! Yeah! And by the looks of the 24 hour forecast, they'll be in 15 knot winds by 4am Saturday (PDT).

Thursday, May 26 - 5:00 PM: Location: 16N 20' 122N 41'

Wednesday, May 25 - 5:00 PM: They are going to stop motoring which means that they are going to slow down due to the lack of wind. They are conserving gas for the Doldrums.

Tuesday, May 24 - 5:00 PM: Location 18N 30min, 120W 40 min.

Monday, May 23 - 5:00 PM: Still no wind.

Sunday, May 22 - 5:00 PM: Location: 21N 0min 0sec, 120W 0min 0 sec. They were motoring yesterday as there hasn't been any wind.

Friday, May 20 - 5:00 PM: Thank you for a Blog Post by "The Mommy": "One of the large sails ripped and they replaced it with a smaller one they brought along. That'll slow them down a little. Coordinates at 5pm PDT, 5/20/05: 24 N 10min; 120 W 30min"

Monday, May 16 - Afternoon: Receive a report that they are moving at a good pace around 6 knots and are about 180 miles south west of here.

Sunday, May 15 - 7:30 PM: Chris, Peter, and Nicole set sail from Newport Beach, CA.

-Kelly Fujikawa

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