16-Year-Old Girl Crosses the World on Her Pink Boat (44 pics)

16-year-old Jessica Watson is the youngest sailor who voyaged around the
globe without any assistance.

Jessica Watson's journey on her pink boat lasted 210 days, during this
time she traveled 23000 nautical miles. She left Sydney on Oct. 18,
2009, crossed the Pacific Ocean, then the equator, she rounded the Cape
Horn (the most southerly point of South America), swam across the
Atlantic Ocean to South Africa and then swam across the Indian Ocean and
along the southern coast of Australia. Earlier, the youngest participant
of around the world was considered a 17-year-old Briton Mike Perham.
Meanwhile, the record in a single nonstop solo circumnavigation belonged
to Australian Jesse Martin, who made the voyage at the age of 18 in
1999. The Watson's voyage, however, will not be recognized officially as
a record in any case in order to discourage ambitious parents pushing
younger children off to sea.

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