The amazing low-tech sailor from Japan:
…it would be tough to beat a modest, Japanese adventurer named Kenichi Horie. On a pleasant Sunday 50 years ago this month, Horie sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge in a 19-foot-long, blue sailboat made of plywood…
…Nowadays even a paddler in a kayak can consult electronic devices to navigate, check the tides and currents and the weather. But Horie sailed across the Pacific using only a sextant, which he had learned to use in his high school sailing club…
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