Fifteen young men from Yawatahama, Japan, sailed eleven thousand kilometers across the Pacific in a fifteen meter wooden boat to fulfill their vision of coming to America, landing at Point Arena on August 13, 1913. Traveling from Ehime prefecture in a small fishing boat called Utase Bune and entrusting their dreams and hopes to a compass, they became a lasting source of inspiration and a foundation of friendship between the people of Yawatahama and Point Arena.