Interview with yachtsman Horie

Japanese yachtsman Kenichi Horie, 84, gives an interview in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan, on Dec. 5, 2022, after becoming the oldest person to sail across the Pacific solo and nonstop in June 2022, when he was 83.

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