The young sheilah from Queensland has done it... 'You Little Beauty', Jessica Watson has become the youngest neville at 16 to sail around the world, non-stop and unassisted. So after crossing the finishing line in Sy
dney, she had passed 210 days in the ocean strewth and had covered a friggin' 23,000 nautical miles (or in aussie terms 38,000 kilometers mate!)10m yacht 'Elle's Pink Lady'
At her welcome home Party she told the world, 'I don't consider myself a hero, I'm just an ordinary girl who believed in a dream'. She said that to the mob of thousands who 'chucked a sickie', and turned up at the Sydney Opera House to watch her end her epic journey. Talking about dreams I'm an ordinary bloke and I believe in a dream, so all I have to do now
is win lotto!Crikey
Jessica doing some fishing during her sail around the world, but fairdinkum it's only really a friggin' fishfinger!
Watson's journey will not be registered as a record because — in a bid to discourage some ambitious parents pushing their four-year-old off from a wharf with a "good luck" and a prayer — they no longer list world records for people under 18.... bugger but they still have a beaut point hay.
A photo Jessica took while she was up the mast doing some work, now that looks like fun hay.
So after months (well almost a year) of me and the kiddies following her blog, and keeping a track of her trip we have come to an end. It's a pity that it's all over, but at least she didn't end up as a shark biscuit! Now were keeping and eye on that American sheilah Abby Sutherland, who's doing the same thing but it's not a non-stop run. So if you keep an eye on our little map, you'll see her trip on the aussie yacht Wild eyes.... you go girl.