AHODORI & Yoh’s circumnavigation
The ketch AHODORI 2 is a 21-foot plywood boat built by her skipper Yoh Aoki at his back yard taking 2 years.
When Yoh was 22 years old, he left Osaka in Japan for the circumnavigation the globe by himself.
And he luckily sailed home on 1974 after 3 years and 2 months lonesome journey on the sea, calling at San Francisco, Acapulco, Galapagos islands, Easter island, Buenos Aires, Cape town and Sydney.
No such a small boats like a 21-foot has attempted to sail around the world via Cape Horn.
His 1972 Cape Horn passage miraculous Yoh says.
A wave he recalls as being about 100 feet high turned his vessel upside down before another wave somehow righted the craft. “The upside-down boat had started sinking because a lot of water came into the cabin” .
His boat is registered on the Guiness book of record as the smallest boat ever circumnavigated the world via Cape Horn. The record is also introduced to Captain Joshua Slocum Society’s book.
His boat AHODORI 2 has been now displayed at the Banpaku Museum Park in Osaka.
Yoh’s books “Ahoudori and myself” is well known as an around the world story. His recent books “Inner sailing 1“,”Inner sailing 2” and “Inner sailing 3” are best selling in Japan and Korea as sailing text books.
Aoki is also conducting a monthly Zen meeting at Zigenin temple in OSAKA. Feel free to join the meetings.
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- Alone 3 years & 2 months
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- buiding at the backyard
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- 3/9 thick plywood
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- 2 years to build
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- start sailing to SF
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- busy day ont the Ocean but happy
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- happy with catching mahimahi
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- no GPS but a sextant
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- ahoy goldengate bridge!
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- Charlie & Ray send me off
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- Doldrums equator
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- Iguanas at Galapagos Is
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- Stone statue on the Easter Is
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- friends Easter Is
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- 2 months living with native
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- start for the roaring 40’s
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- wow, what a wave!
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- capsized upside down afterward
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- passed the Cape Horn
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- Charlie & Suzzane seeing me to BA
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- friend Daniel BA
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- repaired keel fastnings
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- approaching south Africa
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- off Cape Town soth Africa
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- catched a big Tuna
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- hit storm in Bass streight
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- Sydny harbor safe
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- Aussie friends send me off
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- drifting at the Equater
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- Calm… Lonly
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- Tuna but diarrhea after
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- home to Osaka bay
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- sail home after 3 years & 2 months
Yoh:
I want to send you your epic record shattering round the world trip letters to me from Accapulco, Cape Horn (upside down), Buenos Aires, Perth, but I have lost your address. Please resend it ASAP. I lost your last fine email when my computer crashed.
I hope you are well. Fair winds. Ray Prendergast
My last messge is all that I can supply to get a reply from Yoh. I lived in San Francisco with Charlie Greenfield. Yoh came to my house for dinner while he was remaking his mast broken on the trip from Japan to the US.
How else can I send an important message to Yoh???
Fair winds and good bye.
Ray Prendergast
Ray, my addreess in Japan is,
Yoh Aoki
Rinku-port Kita1,
Tajiri-tyo, Sennan-gun,
Osaka 5980093
Japan
telephone:+81 724 65 8192
Yoh,very cool!!!
Hi Alex, thank you for your comment! See you on the water somewhere!!
Hi, Yoh and Missy
Wonderful to be able to write to you again after so long. have just posted a letter to you, Jan. 17, which I trust will reach you. Briefly, I have moved to a new home since Nancy is on her way. I will be sending you my favored Zen book by Thich Nhat Hanh lest you may not have it. Fair winds in all your important contributions to civilization. Ray
Ray,
I received the book you sent me.
I’m trying to find a publishing company to print my book in English.
Take care of yourself.
Fair winds,
Yoh
Incredible!!! I am going to do what you did in the near future. It would be an honor to meet with you time permitting, sailor to sailor, just to have a drink with you and to celebrate the journey in your footsteps. I am Lalloo.
Hello,
I would like to buy an English version of ‘Yoh & Ahodori’ or ‘Ahoudori And Myself’ by Yoh Aoki. I’m assuming they are the same book with a different title?
I am in New Zealand.
Cheers