{"id":45163,"date":"2022-06-04T19:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T10:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/04\/japanese-man-kenichi-horie-83-becomes-oldest-person-sail-solo-non-stop-across-pacific"},"modified":"2022-06-04T19:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T10:50:01","slug":"japanese-man-83-becomes-oldest-person-to-sail-solo-non-stop-across-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45163","title":{"rendered":"Japanese man, 83, becomes oldest person to sail solo non-stop across Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yachtsman Kenichi Horie repeats trick after becoming first person to successfully take on feat in 1962<\/p>\n<p>Before he set off, Kenichi Horie said his only fear about sailing solo non-stop across the Pacific Ocean was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/mar\/24\/man-83-sail-from-san-francisco-to-japan\">his age<\/a>. But on Saturday, the 83-year-old \u2013 known as \u201cJapan\u2019s most famous yachtsman\u201d \u2013 proved it was not an obstacle after all as he became the world\u2019s oldest person to complete the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>After more than two months at sea, the record-breaking octogenarian, who in 1962 also became the first person to successfully take on the feat, arrived in the waters off the Kii peninsula in western Japan at 2.39am local time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/04\/japanese-man-kenichi-horie-83-becomes-oldest-person-sail-solo-non-stop-across-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yachtsman Kenichi Horie repeats trick after becoming first person to successfully take on feat in 1962Before he set off, Kenichi Horie said his only fear about sailing solo non-stop across the Pacific Ocean was his age. But on Saturday, the 83-year-old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,1109,203,47,42,2670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sailing","category-sport","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-world-records"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45164,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45163\/revisions\/45164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}