In 1962, Kenichi Horie crossed the Pacific Ocean with out a passport.
Tokyo:
An 83-year-old yachtsman arrived in Japan early Saturday morning after a solo, continuous journey throughout the Pacific, changing into the oldest individual ever to attain the feat.
Famed ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie’s arrival within the Kii Strait off western Japan capped a two-month journey that began from a yacht harbour in San Francisco in March.
It was solely the most recent seagoing achievement by the Japanese octogenarian, who in 1962 voyaged from Japan to San Francisco at age 23, changing into the primary individual on the earth to sail alone throughout the Pacific.
The general public relations group for his most up-to-date voyage mentioned Horie’s Saturday return to Japan made him the world’s oldest individual to tug off a solo, continuous crossing of the most important and deepest ocean on Earth.
“I am about to cross the end line,” Horie wrote on his weblog Friday after what he described as a three-day battle with the pushback from a present.
“I am exhausted.”
His 1962 Pacific crossing made headlines as he launched into the journey with out a passport, basically smuggling his method into america.
Sixty years in the past, “I used to be continuously anxious and harassed that I’d get caught… My situation was the worst,” he blogged in April.
“However this time it is totally different, I used to be despatched off by many individuals and have their assist via monitoring methods and wi-fi radio. I could not be extra grateful.”
Except for his 1962 Pacific crossing, Horie is understood for crusing all over the world solo in 1974 and his longitudinal voyage all over the world between 1978 and 1982.
The most recent expedition was the primary he had undertaken since 2008, when he sailed from Honolulu to the Kii Strait on a wave-powered 31-foot boat.
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