Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.
Team Umiou (海王《うみおう》) started out in cold, wet and dreary conditions on one side of the Tsugaru Channel, but finished under better conditions in their 12 hour 45 minute crossing from Hokkaido to Honshu. Captain Mizushima escorted Tomokazu Sakurai, Nobu Arihisa, Yuko Isozaki, Shinpei Kamata, Fujiko Kawasaki and Motoko Honma in northern Japan.
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