For weeks, a small sailing boat drifted across a vast stretch of the Pacific with little certainty about where it would end up. Its lone occupant, 39-year-old Kai Sato from California, had set out hoping to complete his first solo voyage to Hawaii, but the journey quickly became something very different.

A California man has been rescued alive after spending 30 days stranded at sea when his sailboat lost its mast, his phone died and he ran out of gas far from shore. Kai Sato, 39,…

In a remarkable journey, California sailor Kai Sato survived 30 days stranded in the Pacific after his sailboat lost its mast, leaving him adrift nearly 900 miles from Hawaii. His…