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Kenichi Horie (堀江 謙一, Horie Ken'ichi, born September 8, 1938 in Osaka) is a Japanese solo yachtsman. In 1962 he became the first person to sail solo and non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. In 1962 he became the first person to sail solo and non-stop across the Pacific Ocean.
On March 16, 2008, then 69-year-old Japanese sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie left the Hawaii Yacht Club, Honolulu, in Suntory Mermaid II, bound for Japan. He arrived on July 4, 2008 in the Kii Channel offshore of Hinomisaki cape, Wakayama, without incident. Horie had made the world's longest solo voyage in a wave-powered boat, using ...
Kenichi Horie arrived in the Kii Strait off Japan’s western coast, completing his trans-Pacific voyage in 69 days after leaving a yacht harbor in San Francisco in March. It was the latest ...
English: The solar recycled aluminum boat "Malt's Mermaid", piloted by Kenichi Horie, at Kotohira-gu Shrine in Shikoku, Japan. Date: 29 May 2012: Source: Own work ...
The film is based on the book Alone on the Pacific (USA title) (Kodoku), Kenichi Horie's account of his 1962 solo voyage across the Pacific, which was the first successful Transpacific solo voyage. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
David Cowper is the only person to have done the Northwest Passage three times and he did it solo in a single season in 2009. In 1979–82, Kenichi Horie in Mermaid, was the first person to do it solo, but took two overwintering stops.
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1979–1982: Kenichi Horie in Mermaid, was the first person to sail the Northwest Passage solo; 1982: As part of the Transglobe Expedition Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Charles R. Burton cross the Arctic Ocean in a single season; 1986: Will Steger and party reach the north pole by dog sled without resupply