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Jun 4, 2022 · Satellite phone: Kenichi Horie told CNN he calls home every day so his family don't worry about him.
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Born in Osaka, on the south coast of Japan, Kenichi Horie had no family history of sailing. The Horie family owned a car parts factory and young Kenichi’s first job was as a salesman for the family business. While he was at university, he joined the sailing club because ‘it sounded like fun’ and started reading about ocean adventurers such as Alain...
Meeting Kenichi Horie now, you might think he was too quiet and gentle for such a daring adventure, but even aged 23 he had a determined streak. When the Japanese refused to issue him with a passport or American currency for his first voyage because they considered it too dangerous, Horie went anyway. He left Japan on 12 May 1962 and arrived in San...
It started in 1972, with his first attempt to sail around the world ‘eastabout’ on the 24ft Mermaid II. The trip ended in disaster when the boat was damaged and Horie had to be rescued by the Japanese coastguard. Undaunted, he was back two years later sailing the ‘wrong’ way around the world (westabout) on the 29ft Mermaid III, becoming the first J...
From 1985 onwards, many of Horie’s voyages have carried an environmental message, either testing alternative forms of energy (including crossing the Pacific twice on solar-powered boats) or through extensive use of recycled materials. He took this to a new level in 1999, when he crossed the Pacific solo on a 33ft catamaran made of 528 beer kegs wel...
For his latest Pacific crossing, Horie went back to his roots with a 19ft cutter. Once again, simplicity was key, and Suntory Mermaid IIIwasn’t fitted with a watermaker or an engine and was powered by a single solar-powered battery. She did, however, have a windvane, GPS and a satellite phone. Horie also took a sextant with him, just as he did in 1...
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Kenichi left Honolulu on March 16, 2008, and completed the 110-day solo voyage at the port of Wakayama in the channel between Honshu and Shikoku islands before midnight (1500 GMT) Friday, July 4, 2008. He covered the 7,000 kilometres (3,780 nautical miles) from Hawaii without a port call.
Jun 3, 2022 · Satellite phone: Kenichi Horie told CNN he calls home every day so his family don't worry about him.
Jun 7, 2022 · Making no port calls, Horie nevertheless called his family every day to check in. The Guardian reports that he will arrive in Cape Hinomisaki this Saturday, after which he will be towed to his...
Jun 5, 2022 · His journey began at a yacht harbour in San Francisco on 27 March and Mr Horie returned home on Saturday as he crossed the Kii Strait off Japan’s western coast at around 2.39am local time –...
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Jun 6, 2022 · Horie arrived at his home port on June 4 and stayed that day in his yacht for quarantine and other procedures. He disembarked from the yacht the following day.
