Boat 19 feet on WL.... pretty gutsy for a 83 year old, who has completed similar voyagers when younger.
edition.cnn.com/travel/article/kenichi-horie-solo-pacific-sail-intl-hnk/index.html
As a 79 y/o who sails solo on the GC and has no intention of stopping I take my hat off to him .
In the sailing community in Japan, Horie is Slocum, Tabarly, Chichester and Moitessier rolled into one.
But as a national (elderly) hero Yuichiro Miura is it.
Everest at 80
www.bing.com/search?pc=COSP&ptag=D050421-N9997A915F698E57&form=CONBDF&conlogo=CT3335818&q=everest%20miura
Amazing.
I recall reading his crossing in the early 60s in some magazine which had plans of his boat Mermaid and built a small balsa sheet model of it. His deck shoes then were thongs iirc. Good that his deck shoes and boat has evolved - unbelievable effort on both trips.
