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This is the official record of 75-year-old Minoru Saito's history-making voyage around the world.

The Saito Challenge 8 Support Committee, an all-volunteer international organization, welcomes you to Minoru Saito's "wrong-way" voyage of 24,970 nautical miles. He already holds the Guinness Book world record as the oldest non-stop solo circumnavigator, at age 71.

He's now 4 years older, so the story of his next record might well begin this way when he returns to Yokohama in May, 2009:

"Minoru Saito crossed the finish line today on his record single-handed circumnavigation, making him the oldest sailor to complete a solo circumnavigation at age 75, the most number of solo circumnavigations (8), and the oldest solo sailor to complete a westward circumnavigation, going the "wrong way around."

We invite you to take a moment to visit the Saito 8 web page. We thank our sponsors for their generous support of Saito Challenge 8 (and, yes, sponsorship opportunities are still available!)

Finally, we thank YOU for your personal interest in this extraordinary man, who in 2006 became the only Asian to receive the Cruising Club of America's Blue Water Medal in the 86-year history of the world's top short-handed sailing award.

Please drop by often to keep up with this record-making saga of one, single man with the sea.

Hunter M. Brumfield
Saito Challenge 8 Support Committee
Tokyo

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