Blind sailor completes non-stop Pacific voyage
- A blind Japanese sailor completed his non-stop Pacific voyage, local media reported, becoming the first sightless person on record to navigate a vessel across the vast ocean.
- Mitsuhiro Iwamoto arrived at port in Fukushima in his 12-metre sailboat on Saturday morning, around two months after he left California.
- Doug Smith, an American navigator who verbally helped him by offering information such as wind directions.
- This was his second attempt after his initial voyage was cut short six years ago when his yacht hit a whale and sank.