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14-Year-Old Boy Sails Solo Across the Pacific Yuko Dokura from Japan
That's exactly what Subaru Takahashi did. Subaru is a Japanese junior high school student from Shirone, Nigata Prefecture. He became the youngest person to complete a solo voyage across the Pacific. He started out from Tokyo on July 22, 1996 in a 9-meter sail boat and arrived in San Francisco on September 16, 1996. It was a 10,000-km, 50-day voyage. Subaru said his voyage was thrilling. When Subaru arrived in San Francisco he told reporters that he wanted to sail around the world next. In
an interview in Japanese, Subaru said he has been
boating and canoeing since an early age. "I
don't fight with nature. Nature is not an object
that you refer to with a word like,
fight.* *
The
words quoted above are Subaru's words translated
from Japanese to
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