Posted on 05/14/2010 5:18:09 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy
FOR the first time, and so close to home, we get a sense of what Jessica Watson has battled for 23,000 nautical miles and 210 days.
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She has fought loneliness and boredom and, every time she laid down her head, the fears it brought with it. Yet she came through it and, well, how she did it really isn't that hard to see at all.
"It's a bit bouncy out here again," she said yesterday, via satellite phone. "It's up over 40 knots and we weren't expecting that, but it's all right. A bit wet though.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...
THis is the news story of the day in Australia. I could have selected any source. Chose this because of the impossibly cool picture
One Hour (more or less) and she's over the line
And from her blog what she's going to miss: "I'm going to miss getting up and going sailing every day!"
badparenting.com
Thats pretty cool, kids can do amazing things if we let them.
bad parenting? Yeah much better to keep her home and in some public school
But great sailing instructors. I say Way to go kid
"Better drowned than duffers: If not duffers won't drown"
I wouldn’t try this in anything less than a destroyer....
That is a great shot.
I did it once on a 541 foot Missile Tracker with about 200 other men!
Nice boat. I think I would want something a little longer though.
Looking to crew across the Pacific westward
http://www.sailnet.com/forums/crew-wanted/64437-looking-crew-across-pacific-westward.html
Lot’s of people love to sail, some more extreme than others.
She was probably safer than she would have been in many of our public schools.
Sparkman & Stephens 34. small, but pretty near unbreakable and unsinkable.
About 200 built so far. As far as can be determined every one is still afloat (one did sink once, it got better)
4 miles out now. No2 Jib and full mainsail. She intends to come in in style.
Jessica Watson's yacht, the Pink Lady, rounds the southern tip of Tasmania in the closing stages of her solo round-the-world trip. Photograph: Rex Features
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/may/13/jessica-watson-round-world-solo-sail
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An Incredible Feat for a 16 year old.
From the size of it she may have swapped the No2 jib for a Type0. Make that coming in in grand style.
Oh in that pic it did not look like a 34 footer, that’ll work.
She’s across the line, now inside Sydney Harbour.
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