Fast Facts: First man to make a solo trip across the Pacific 60 years ago

Kenichi Horie, a 23-year-old man from Japan, was the first person to make a non-stop solo crossing of the Pacific, leaving Japan on May 12, 1962, and arriving in San Francisco aboard his 19-foot plywood sloop sailboat the Mermaid on Aug. 12, 1962. The 5,300-mile journey took 94 days, and Horie arrived in...

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