Kenichi Horie to cross the Pacific Ocean again at age 88, announced in March 2027

Kenichi Horie (88), an ocean adventurer from Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, held a press conference on the 8th in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, and announced that he will attempt to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean by yacht in March 2027, without making any ports of call. If he succeeds, he will break the world's oldest record, which he set at the age of 83.

At the press conference, Horie announced that she plans to leave San Francisco in the United States and head to Japan in about two months. On the same day, he celebrated his 88th birthday, and he said, ``The magma of wanting to sail began to flow out of me,'' and he also expressed his enthusiasm for further challenges, saying, ``I don't want this to be my last voyage.''

Horie set out under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in March 2022, when he was 83 years old, and reached the Kii Channel off the coast of Hinomisaki in Wakayama Prefecture in June of the same year. He was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest person to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean.