16yrl GIRL went around the world in a small boat.

catefrances

Jo wrote:

I'm really hoping Jessica spends her new found fame on premoting The Red Cross, Royal Flying Doctors, Good Samaritians, The Wiggles and others of thier ilk.

i really dont think the wiggles need any more promoting.

dottles

Amazing achievement.

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!

Franny

WOW what an achievement. Gotta give it to her she has more determination and grit that most people placed on this planet...and in her own age group, she simply outclasses them all.
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!

DewieCox

Crazy badass

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?

Gary Carter

this thread is useless without pics

mickeyrat

DewieCox wrote:

Crazy badass

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?

um lets see, travel from start in one place to stop at same place in boat, sounds like around the world to me. I would tend to think if the line was close to the Sydney logitudinal line , then yeah I see your point. But the southern Pacific is no joke as I'm sure the southern Indian Ocean isn't either.Still , it's one hell of an achievement.

Jo

This feat is something special.

'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?

" Awesome "

I want to do roller derby :lolno:

polaris_x

i hope she's alright! she's not in a great place for Search and Rescue ... :(

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Sunderland, 16, reportedly in troubleEmail Print Comments271 ESPN.com news services

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.

Jearlpam0925

polaris_x wrote:

i hope she's alright! she's not in a great place for Search and Rescue ... :(

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http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=5272149

Sunderland, 16, reportedly in troubleEmail Print Comments271 ESPN.com news services

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.

[+] EnlargeAP Photo/Richard Hartog
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.

mookeywrench

Just read the story, unfortunately things are looking pretty grim when her reported whereabouts are "somewhere between South Africa and Australia". Hope this works out

Jearlpam0925

mookeywrench wrote:

Just read the story, unfortunately things are looking pretty grim when her reported whereabouts are "somewhere between South Africa and Australia". Hope this works out

From the other articles I read, she set off her EPIRB in the southern Indian Ocean, and that her boat most likely hasn't sunk because another beacon signal would have went off if the boat submerged below 15 feet. Apparently two rescue planes are approximately 40 hours away from her from the time of the story. Unless she drowns from the swells, I think there's a good chance she could survive.

mookeywrench

well..that's AOL news for ya

LikeAnOcean

I'm all for travelling and sailing, but what motivates people to do this dangerous stuff? Climb Everest, sail around the world by themselves, etc.

I've read its an adrenaline defeciancy or something along those lines.

mookeywrench

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I'm all for travelling and sailing, but what motivates people to do this dangerous stuff? Climb Everest, sail around the world, etc.

I've read its an adrenaline defeciancy or something along those lines.

I hike for the challenge and sense of accomplishment, I can see why people would want to do this.

DewieCox

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I'm all for travelling and sailing, but what motivates people to do this dangerous stuff? Climb Everest, sail around the world by themselves, etc.

I've read its an adrenaline defeciancy or something along those lines.

Ego or the thrill.

LikeAnOcean

mookeywrench wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I'm all for travelling and sailing, but what motivates people to do this dangerous stuff? Climb Everest, sail around the world, etc.

I've read its an adrenaline defeciancy or something along those lines.

I hike for the challenge and sense of accomplishment, I can see why people would want to do this.

I get that. I hike, run too. but when you set out to hike, do you do so knowing there's a good chance you could die?

Jearlpam0925

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I'm all for travelling and sailing, but what motivates people to do this dangerous stuff? Climb Everest, sail around the world, etc.

I've read its an adrenaline defeciancy or something along those lines.

I hear people on this, but I think it comes along with a lifestyle too. Friends of mine think I'm insane for wanting to sail around the world. Of course, I'm probably about 5-10 years away from doing so, or at least attempting to doing so. I think there's certain accomplishments in life that don't give the same satisfaction as a bonus at a corporate job or making a big sale. To some, I think people see life accomplishments on a grander scale. I personally would like to do it because of the incredible experience, and like I said - it's a lifestyle. If heaven forbid it would be the way I died, then maybe so be it. I don't say that to be morbid, but we all have to go someway and if it's doing what you love then so be it.

mookeywrench

LikeAnOcean wrote:

mookeywrench wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I'm all for travelling and sailing, but what motivates people to do this dangerous stuff? Climb Everest, sail around the world, etc.

I've read its an adrenaline defeciancy or something along those lines.

I hike for the challenge and sense of accomplishment, I can see why people would want to do this.

I get that. I hike, run too. but when you set out to hike, do you do so knowing there's a good chance you could die?

there's always the risk of getting lost from the trail, tracked down by a cougar, or running into a bear cub

Jearlpam0925

PS - I would love for this conversation to keep going. I love this shit.

LikeAnOcean

mookeywrench wrote:

there's always the risk of getting lost from the trail, tracked down by a cougar, or running into a bear cub

Well, if you say it that way.. I'm from the midwest and the biggest danger is getting attacked by a skunk or rabified coyote. lol

But still, animal attacks are rare. Very rare. If a hundred people did what she did every year I can gauruntee you many of them would not survive. 100 hikers go hiking, maybe .00001% of them die.