An 83-year-old Japanese adventurer has change into the oldest particular person to efficiently sail solo, nonstop throughout the Pacific.
Kenichi Horie arrived within the Kii Strait off Japan’s western coast right now after crusing his manner into the document books.
He accomplished his trans-Pacific voyage in 69 days after setting off from a yacht harbour in San Francisco in March.
It was the most recent achievement for the octogenarian adventurer, who in 1962 grew to become the primary particular person on the planet to efficiently full a solo nonstop voyage throughout the Pacific from Japan to San Francisco.
Sixty years later, he travelled the other route.
‘I simply crossed the end line. I’m drained,’ he wrote in his weblog after reaching Japan within the early hours of Saturday.
He mentioned that his boat, Suntory Mermaid III, can be towed after the dawn for an anticipated arrival at his house port of Shin Nishinomiya yacht harbour within the night.
Kenichi accomplished his voyage after three days of struggling towards a robust tide.
On Friday he wrote on his weblog that he had succeeded however was exhausted and took a nap after feeling assured his yacht was on monitor to achieve the end line.
Kenichi’s return to Japan makes him the world’s oldest particular person to finish a solo, nonstop crossing of the Pacific, in accordance with his sponsors.
A welcome ceremony is predicted to be held for him in his house port tomorrow.
The adventurer’s accomplishment will not be his first, in 1974 Kenichi accomplished a solo circumnavigation of the world.
His newest expedition was the primary since his 2008 solo continuous voyage on a wave-powered boat from Hawaii to the Kii Strait.
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