Hello everyone, it's time for "Tao Ge Blind Talk" again, today and everyone to nag a strange man, he loves adventure in his life, once crossed the Pacific Ocean alone many times, using a small sailing boat, and not long ago, he was 83 years old, lasted for several months, and once again achieved the feat of not calling any port across the ocean, which can be described as quite hardcore.
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Born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1938, Kenichi Horie, unlike many legendary stories, his later feats seem to have nothing to do with childhood. In fact, until he was 17 years old, Kenichi Hoe was still a "good baby", with excellent grades and a low profile. If nothing else, he would have been assigned by his father to become a competent auto parts salesman – a promising job in the 1950s and 1960s.
However, when Hoe Jiang was a sophomore in high school, a physical education teacher at the school suddenly announced that he would open a "sailing club" on campus on a whim. What is speechless is that after the establishment of the club, it organized only one event, and then it was dissolved because it could not bear the cost of renting the boat.
Yes, just once.
Even this only event, the number of participants was only a pitiful 4.
It was in this extremely failed club event that a great sailing adventurer was born.
Kenichi Horie recalled: At that time, I didn't have any concept of the ocean, but I just felt that driving a sailboat on the water was particularly comfortable, especially dreamy, and even really heard in my mind that something was calling me.
In order to be able to drive a ship to live at sea, for the first time in his life, Heojiang rebelled against his father's wishes, gave up becoming a car parts salesman, and instead joined a transportation company and became a crew member.
The Bo jiang in his youth
At the age of 23, on a boring afternoon, Kenichi Hoe made a bold decision that caused him to sensationalize the world after 94 days.
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The Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean on Earth, is 20,000 kilometers wide from east to west.
If you lack an idea of this number, you can compare the width of China's borders – the northernmost Daxing'anling Mountains to Sanya in Hainan, 4,000 kilometers. It is equivalent to running China from south to north for 2 and a half round trips.
And Horiko Kenichi's plan was for a man, a sailing ship, without any power unit, relying only on cans and dry food, and crossing the Pacific Ocean without stopping at any port for supplies.
In his plan, it will take about 60 to 70 days to achieve this goal.
The family thought he was crazy, especially his sister, and even told Kenichi Hoe that if he insisted on leaving, then the family would hold a funeral for him in advance.
Perhaps in today's highly developed transportation, crossing the Pacific Ocean is not a move to the sky, but more than half a century ago, Horie Kenichi did not have any predecessors to learn from, the Pacific Ocean is still a natural barrier for solo adventurers, no one has achieved this goal alone, let alone driving a small sailing ship, which is undoubtedly a suicide at sea.
Kenichi Hoe's father didn't understand and asked him, "Why are you doing this?"
The answer was very domineering: because I wanted to.
In May 1962, at the age of 23, he embarked on his journey alone in Osaka.
Exactly 94 days later, he arrived in San Francisco.
In 1963, Horie arrived in San Francisco
The U.S. patrolling marine police arrested Kenichi Hoe at the first time because he didn't have a penny of cash, no legal passport, or even English.
The U.S. police had every reason to believe that this was an Asian smuggler and was likely to have entered the country from some illegal route in Cuba or South America. But through an interpreter, Kenichi Horrie told the other side that he had set sailed from Osaka, Japan, across the Pacific Ocean for three months.
The U.S. police couldn't believe it, and even thought the illegal immigrant might be highly hypothetical, but when they learned the truth, they were shocked. No one dared to try the warrior easily, so they reported the situation to george Christopher, the mayor of San Francisco at the time, who immediately made a decision, acquitted him, and issued a visa to commemorate Kenichi Horie's fearless spirit.
In 1963, Horie was arrested by san Francisco police here, and in 2022, he was heroically welcomed at the same location
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Since then, Kun Jiangxian has been out of control one by one, as if he has crossed the Pacific Ocean many times like an addiction.
In order to spice up the boring travel at sea, he changed his "car" in a different way - the first time he used a wind galleon, the second time, he installed four foot pedals, and relied on "foot power" to drive the ship all the way from Hawaii to Okinawa when there was no wind; The third time, he set off from Ecuador and used a solar-powered boat to return to Tokyo, but this time, because the solar equipment failed at sea due to the corrosion of rainwater, resulting in the inability to use normally in the second half, so it took Horrie Kenichi a full 148 days to reach his destination tokyo.
In 1996, the solar boat in the Bojiang River
In 1999, when Kenichi Horie crossed the Pacific Ocean for the sixth time, he used an unprecedented catamaran made of 528 beer barrels to sail from the west coast of the United States to Japan, and three years later, he sailed from Japan to the United States in reverse from Japan to the United States on a boat with recycled whiskey barrels.
Over the past 30 years, he has crossed the Pacific Ocean seven times and become a well-known navigator.
Everyone was amazed by his luck, after all, there were many unexpected situations at sea, as long as a single small boat encountered a slightly larger wave, there was a risk of overturning, but Kun Jiang Xianyi was safe and sound every time, even if there was a situation in the middle of the road, there was still no danger in the end
The most recent one was in 2008, when he used back a small sailboat without any artificial power.
Asked why, he replied that our human history has always used combustion to generate electricity, even if it is clean energy, it is only wind or solar, but it seems that no one has ever really paid attention to tidal and wave energy, and what I want to do is to tell the electric power scientist that the waves above the ocean surface contain endless energy sources, even in microscopic terms, it is enough for someone like me to cross the Pacific Ocean smoothly.
As an environmentalist, Horie explains the infinite possibilities of wave energy with a great adventure. He wrote his experience as a book called "Crossing the Pacific Alone", which was published as a bestseller and later adapted into a film, starring actor Yujiro Ishihara, and the film was selected for the Golden Globe Award. In the book, he writes, "The crew is the most important," so he always chooses the best crew he can find—himself.
Sailing from San Francisco in March this year was the 12th voyage of the Hori River. It was a long, dangerous, and somewhat frantic voyage that would take months to complete, probably the most dangerous he's ever had ever been.
The 83-year-old before his last Pacific crossing in March
Especially at his age, no one can guarantee that he will succeed. Horie didn't do special physical training for sailing, but he was always in good shape: "I've always been in shape, I haven't overeating, I haven't overeated." ”
"It's almost the same as before," recalling the first time japan crossed the Pacific to San Francisco in 1962, he said. ”
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