According to media reports, 83-year-old Japanese Kenichi Horie would be the oldest solo sailor to cross the Pacific without a stopover. 60 years ago, at the age of 23, the Japanese was the youngest person in the world to cover this distance alone in a sailboat.
After a journey of 8,500 kilometers, Horie crossed the finish line early Saturday morning (local time) in the Kii Channel between the prefectures of Wakayama and Tokushima in southern Japan, NHK World broadcaster reported. Horie spent 69 days on his most recent crossing of the Pacific Ocean. At the end of March, he started work in San Francisco on the west coast of the US with his six-meter sailing yacht “Suntory Mermaid III”. He kept in touch with helpers and other people via the satellite phone.
By 1962, Horie had sailed in the opposite direction—from Nishinomiya in Japan to San Francisco. Driving without a passport at the time made him famous and he wrote a book about his adventure.
Source: Krone
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