Yachtsman Horie returns home

Yachtsman Horie returns home

OSAKA, Japan - Kenichi Horie, a six-time trans-Pacific solo sailor from Japan, shows a certificate of honor he received from the city of San Francisco at a news conference on returning to Osaka on July 26. Horie left Japan on May 12 on his MALT's Mermaid 3 and arrive in San Francisco on July 17 in a two-month journey that recreated his historic solo trip across the Pacific in 1962. (Kyodo)

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