16yrl GIRL went around the world in a small boat.
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Welcome Home Jessica Watson 
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I was one of the skeptics who thought she should NOT do it, but as a mother, that was my first instinct.
I was one of the skeptics who thought we would be plucking her out of the ocean.
Thank God she has arrived home safely, phew!
Welcome home Jessica,
How BIG are this chick's BALLS?
:wave: :thumbup:I was one of the skeptics who thought she should NOT do it, but as a mother, that was my first instinct.
I was one of the skeptics who thought we would be plucking her out of the ocean.
Thank God she has arrived home safely, phew!
Welcome home Jessica,
How BIG are this chick's BALLS?
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I have a 16 year old niece......who can barely make herself a vegemite sandwich!!
Go Jessica!
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She has officially received badass status.
Yeah...I heard she's arriving tomorrow....thought I must have heard wrongly.
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you heard right zig. tomorrow she sails into the greatest city on earth after the greatest adventure.
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but check this bullshit.............
.... apparently shes not old enough to be offically recognised as the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the world without assistance. you have to ne 18 yrs old at least.... what kind of idiot thought up this stipulation.. men i bet.
anyhoo.. jessica is a legend.
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I'm sure that will be changed after this.
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Some chick who rode a shark around the world. Big deal. I did that when I was 5.
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according to who? I think reality is probably a better indicator than some weird stipulation set by an organization somewhere.
oh for sure.. thats why since i heard this ive been saying fuck off thats bullshit a lot.
she did what she did and no one can take that away from her.
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I also read that NZ is trying to claim her as theirs because her grandparents are kiwis! haha Ahhhh....I shouldn't laugh....good chance I'm moving to NZ next year!
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yeah i heard that bullshit about her not having travelled far enough... im wondering whether magellan or whoever had a specific milegae quota??? it also made me think of that dick steve fossett and how he circumnavigated the globe and at the time me thinking well shit he doesnt seem to have travelled far enough for my liking.
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indeed.
if the zoemonster didnt have a party to attend at noon tomorrow she and i would be down on the harbour acknowledging what a great feat this is... for man or women let alone a teenager.
HAIL HAIL JESS WATSON
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It isn't her age that keeps her from being recognised, it's because some ' SAIL WORLD WEBSITE' says if she didn't cover 21,600 nautical miles, she didn't go ALL the way around the world.
Bullshit, she left Sydney and went East around the world, and she didn't stop until she hit Sydney again,
That says Around the world to me....
Seems like the people who make up the rules have smaller balls and even smaller brains than Jessica, lets see THEM do it!
its both her age and the fact they reckon she didnt cover enough miles. apparently. :roll: two different records.
but jessica said records arent why she did it. she said she did it cause it was something she felt she needed to do. and as far as im concerned thats the only reason to do anything.
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i really dont think the wiggles need any more promoting.
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I was at the reception for Ellen Macarthur when she came back after her round the world trip and the atmosphere was amazing. I was very lucky and able to board her boat for a look around a few days after, it was a big yacht, but with tiny living quarters, I really don't know how she coped!
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Admitedly when she first started I couldn't imagine ever watching my own child do that, but the admiration I have for her is more that I have ever had for a teenager. Watching her on the tv this morning was awesome, would have loved to have been there, but the mother emotion in me took over when she stepped off the boat onto the pontoon at the Opera House and I was bawling like a baby! :oops: So I can only image how her family was feeling.
But way to Jessica, may you continue to kick arse!
I heard that whoever verifies the age record quit doin that sorta thing. I figure to stop a person too young to do it.
I can kinda see the thing about her not travelling around the world. If she cut as perfect a latitudinal circle as the trek would allow, that would take ALOT of miles off. There should definitely be a minimum number of miles for the record to be legit.
How many miles did she travel?
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'Alone' in a small boat, that needs constantly ' Sailed' ...against the AWESOME OCEAN for 7 months non-stop.
and she's a 16 yrld GIRL!!
Just like that young woman who was the first to fly her plane around the world....Amelia?
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Abby Sunderland, a 16-year-old attempting to circumnavigate the globe by herself in a sailboat, is feared lost at sea, according to ABCNews.com.
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Abby Sunderland, pictured in January about to leave on her solo trip, is feared lost at sea.
Sunderland activated two emergency beacons between 7 and 9 a.m. ET Thursday, her mother, MaryAnne, told ABCNews.
An engineer on Sunderland's support team, Jeff Casher, said the beacons indicate that she is in trouble. He said that he last talked with Sunderland at about 9 a.m. ET, when she told him she had been knocked down twice because of strong winds. The wind ripped the radar off the boat, Casher said.
MaryAnne Sunderland told ABCNews that her daughter was in 20- to 25-foot waves off the coast of Madagascar. She is about 500 miles north of the Antarctic Islands.
Her last blog entry Wednesday night said she had encountered some rough weather. "The wind is beginning to pick up. It is back up to 20 knots and I am expecting that by midnight tonight I could have 35-50 knots with gusts to 60 so I am off to sleep before it really picks up," she wrote on her blog.
Sunderland, who is from Thousand Oaks, Calif., left from Marina del Rey on Jan. 24. Her 40-foot boat is called "Wild Eyes."
Sunderland was trying to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, nonstop and unassisted. That hope ended when she had to stop in Cape Town, South Africa, for repairs.
But instead of returning home, she continued the voyage.
Australia's Jessica Watson, 16, became the youngest to achieve the feat May 15 when she sailed into Sydney Harbour after a 210-day journey.
Australia's Jesse Martin had been the previous record-holder, completing the journey in 1999 at the age of 18.
Just got this in my Blue Water Sailing update on FB. Sucks. Hopefully they find her alive. I followed her brother Zac's trip around the world last year.