Minoru Saito
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Minoru Saito (born January 7, 1934 in Asakusa in Tokyo) is a Japanese solo yachtsman. He is the oldest person at age 71 to do a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
He has made four solo circumnavigations. On October 16, 2004 Saito left Japan on his yacht Shuten-dohji II (in English: "Drunken child", commonly referred as "Shoot your dog").
[edit] External links
- http://www.tspsjapan.org/Minoru_Saito.html
- http://www.theoceans.net/news.php?id=158
- map (in Japanese)