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63 Year-Old Sailor Kenichi Horie Completes
Solo Pacific Crossing at Hyde Street Pier

Kenichi Horie arrives at Hyde Street Pier after 67-day voyage.

Adventurer Kenichi Horie completed his 67-day solo Pacific sail at the Park's Hyde Street Pier on Wednesday, July 17. Horie was recreating a solo sail he make forty years ago.

His boat, the Mermaid III (a high-tech replica of the original Mermaid, which is now on display in the Park's Maritime Museum) is constructed from an interesting variety of recycled materials: the plywood hull from whiskey barrels, the aluminum mast from cans, and the sails were spun from plastic soda bottles.

Kenichi Horie holding up his Japanese passport. Horie at the bow of his small boat, the Mermaid III.

Horie had sat becalmed 17 miles outside the Golden Gate for several hours that morning, waiting for the wind and tide to carry him under the bridge.

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Last Updated: July 18, 2002
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