NAVIGATING the Aeolus to the Kansai Boat Show

We sailed to Shin Nishinomiya Yacht Harbor on Friday afternoon to display the Aeolus for 2 days on Saturday and Sunday. The sky was clear and the weather so beautiful that it was hard to believe the weather forecast said there will be a storm tomorrow. Unlike how it was in the morning when we left Osaka Yacht Harbor, we got good winds. We were cruising with the engine at first but the wind was so nice that we hoisted the sails. Furuno Electric's NavNet sends me information via Wi-Fi to my iPad where 'Sail Sound' speaks to me so I was able to do most of the sailing and got us safely to the venue of the Kansai Boat Show. 
The boat show had already begun so I heard music playing and there were lots of yummy smells. After we secured the Aeolus, we hopped on land and walked around a bit when we found life-size photos of me and Shinbo-san. Wow. What a surprise. We posed between the pictures and got our pictures taken. Displayed inside a building in this harbor is the small yacht Little Mermaid that Kenichi Horie-san used to sail from San Francisco to Nishinomiya in 134 days back in 1989. I was so surprised to hear that the small yacht was only 2.8m. That's only about a third of the size of the Aeolus. I would love a chance to meet with Horie-san to listen to his stories about his voyage. If there's anyone out there who knows him, please let me meet him.  

Originally posted by Hiro in Japanese on 4/7/2013
Translated by SWIS Project