A blind Japanese sailor on Saturday successfully completed a near two-month, non-stop voyage from San Diego to Fukushima Prefecture, making him the first to make a so-called blind sailing Pacific Ocean crossing.Joined by a sighted navigator, it was 52-year-old Mitsuhiro Iwamoto's second two-handed attempt at the 14,000-kilometer journey. His first ended when his boat hit a whale and sank."I didn't give up and I made a dream come true. I'm the happiest person on earth," Iwamoto said.Iwamoto, a native of Kumamoto Prefecture currently living in San Diego, left the western U.S. city on Feb. 24 …READ FULL ARTICLE
