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  Aussie billionaire rescues solo sailor
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News DateThursday, February 12, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionAussie billionaire rescues solo sailor


A solo Japanese yachtsman was plucked from wild seas in the remote southern Indian ocean on Saturday with the help of a jet owned by Australia's second-richest person, Richard Pratt.

Masayuki Kikuchi, a 67-year-old from Hokkaido, was sailing his 13 metre yacht Beam 7 solo between South Africa and Western Australia when he was caught in huge seas about 4,000 km west-south-west of Perth.
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