COMING UP: The Ultimate Challenge...

Following the successful record completion in June 2005 of Minoru Saito’s seventh single-handed circumnavigation, Challenge 8 will this time entail a far more daunting westbound non-stop voyage against the prevailing winds, waves, and currents.

Minoru Saito has acquired his “new” boat for Saito Challenge 8, a 1989 56-foot steel-hulled cutter-rigged sloop designed and built in Hawaii.

Click to read the daily log of the vessel on its repositioning voyage, as posted on the web page of the Tokyo Sail & Power Squadron.

 

NEWS FLASH!

Saito Booth a Big Hit
at Japan Boat Show 2008

More than 20 volunteers help tell the Saito Challenge 8 story to visitors during annual 4-day marine event in Yokohama... Click for details

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Minoru Saito's incredible life story is featured in Classic Yacht online magazine, in a two-part series.

Part 1 (begins p38) • Part 2 (begins p74)

articleClassic Yacht’s update on Saito’s “repositioning voyage” of Nicole BMW Shuten-dohji.

Current Issue:

See the movie trailer of the US-made TV series These Amazing People featuring Saito: A "7-episode series about the most outrageous, funny, inspirational people around the world." Thanks to TPI Ltd. for this tremendous tribute!

 

 

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World’s Top Adventure Sailor, 2006

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Minoru Saito wins the Cruising Club of America’s Blue Water Medal, the highest international accolade for adventure sailors. Click to read more.