Sixty years after his first singlehanded Pacific crossing from Japan to San Francisco, Kenichi Horie is ready to go again. If all goes well, famed Japanese singlehander Kenichi Horie, 83, will set sail today from San Francisco bound for Japan. Horie, known as “Japan’s most famous yachtsman”, became the first person to make a non-stop solo crossing of the Pacific in 1962, at the age of 23.
In 1962, Horie set off from Osaka and arrived in San Francisco 94 days later in his 19-foot plywood boat Mermaid. Traveling without a passport or money and little knowledge of English, Horie was briefly arrested on his arrival in San Francisco. Fortunately, the mayor intervened, saw to his release, and presented Horie with a visa and the key to the city.
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