Japanese Sailor Begins 2nd Pacific Crossing
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From Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Kenichi Horie set sail for Japan on Saturday in his gleaming white Mermaid, a single-sail boat just 9 feet, 2 inches long with a 6-foot beam.
He was the first Japanese sailor to cross the Pacific alone when he made a stormy, crossing from Osaka to San Francisco in 94 days in a 19-foot sloop in 1962.
“Then, it was most wide ocean and smallest boat, and now this time, it’s the same thing too,” said Horie, 50, before sailing.
He expects the 6,700-mile journey to take about 100 days.
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