Posted on 04/03/2010 4:29:53 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.—A 16-year-old Southern California girl attempting to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone has rounded Cape Horn on the southern tip of South America. Abby Sunderland is believed to be the youngest person to sail alone around Cape Horn, known for treacherous winds and waves.
Sunderland says on her blog that she didn't get to see the cape because she was some 50 to 60 miles offshore as she crossed from the Pacific Ocean into the Atlantic.
Sunderland embarked five months after older brother Zac completed a westerly solo circumnavigation at the age of 17.
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Alleluia! Alleluia!
He is Risen Indeed.
I hear YOU:-)
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She will now be known as a “Crusty Mossback”.............and has the privilege to wil: To Spit to the Windward...............
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Does this really count?
Aren't there two "correct" ways to do it?
Kay Cottee: Fairweather option: The Horn towering near, large and clear.
Jessica Wartson: Foulweather option: Wind, waves, the Horn looming barely visible out of the mist and rain.
"It's somewhere up way to the north" seems kinda flat.
In case you haven’t heard, we have congressional elections coming up this fall and primaries starting next month. Patriotic conservatives need to be focusing on taking back Congress.
Yahoo reporting she is giving up on her effort due to a broken autopilot.
Thanks, driftdiver, I saw the news last night. She definitely couldn’t go on without that.
She is not sailing for the record now, but for the accomplishment.
After many weeks of struggling with problematic equipment on board the Wild Eyes, 16-year-old Abby Sunderland of Thousand Oaks announced she will be making a much-needed stop in Cape Town, South Africa, which will bring to an end her attempt to be the youngest person to complete a non-stop, unassisted solo-circumnavigation of the globe by sea.
"It would be foolish and irresponsible for me to keep going with my equipment not working well," wrote Sunderland on her blog yesterday. She has been relying on an intermittently-working auto pilot to get her by since she left from Marina Del Rey on January 23.
It will take her about 10-14 days to get to Cape Town, she estimates, but once the repairs are made, she says she's going to keep going.
..."This whole trip came from a dream, a dream to sail around the world, and that is what I am doing - youngest or not, non-stop or stopping."
She'll still have an awesome resume' at 16.
Well, I’m disappointed. However, very understandable and very mature decision.
I’ll still follow her progress.
I'm going with still "foolish and irresponsible", because the plan is , I am not ending my trip!!! I am ending my non-stop and unassisted attempt. I will continue on to hopefully become the youngest solo circumnavigator.
It was merely "ill-advised" before the autopilot problem developed. (Going on without repair would have been "barking insane".) But now she is running against limited time margin as well. That puts her in the same position as Vendee Globe, Velux 5-oceans competitors where it's even chance of fast passage or boat breaking
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