Sailing Around the World

ZoomVT · #1 05-03-2010, 02:05 PM

just came across this. 16yo girl from australia trying to be the youngest ever to sail solo non-stop around the world. Almost done i think. Pretty brave IMO.

http://www.jessicawatson.com.au/

revnecro1273 · #2 05-03-2010, 04:47 PM

old news man

iggs111 · #3 05-03-2010, 05:02 PM

yea zoom what's your problem pal

killa21 · #4 05-03-2010, 05:04 PM

it could be old news, but it was new to me .. cool stuff

must have been very boring for her and if she did it by herself, kudos to her... that's fukin dangerous.. haaha

Victor · #5 05-03-2010, 05:05 PM

I give her all the credit and respect in the world!

revnecro1273 · #6 05-03-2010, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by killa21

it could be old news, but it was new to me .. cool stuff

must have been very boring for her and if she did it by herself, kudos to her... that's fukin dangerous.. haaha

an american chick was trying to do the same thing...she was vying to be youngest to go solo non stop...but she had some problems with her boat last week and will be stopping in south africa

HAMILROCK · #7 05-04-2010, 03:03 PM

is sixteen legal on the sea? Because I think I would do her...LOL!

revnecro1273 · #8 05-04-2010, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by HAMILROCK

is sixteen legal on the sea? Because I think I would do her...LOL!

think it would be safe man...most countries 16 is legal...even if it isn't (which i highly doubt) it will fall under international law which is basically european law and the penalties for crimes over there are not that much...dude i used to correspond with in norway served less than 20 years in prison for murder and like 4 counts of arson

be47320 · #9 05-04-2010, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by revnecro1273

think it would be safe man...most countries 16 is legal...even if it isn't (which i highly doubt) it will fall under international law which is basically european law and the penalties for crimes over there are not that much...dude i used to correspond with in norway served less than 20 years in prison for murder and like 4 counts of arson

prison pen pal?

revnecro1273 · #10 05-05-2010, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by be47320

prison pen pal?

naw...was before he committed the crimes and was incarcerated....dude was in the band burzum...i did a lot of promotion back in the late 80s and early 90s for the underground metal scene

revnecro1273 · #11 06-10-2010, 02:56 PM

Emergency rescue effort is launched for teen sailor Abby Sunderland
By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com

A rescue effort has been launched in hope of finding Abby Sunderland, 16, who set off her emergency beacon locating devices from the southern Indian Ocean early this morning.

Sunderland, who had been attempting to sail around the world alone, endured multiple knockdowns in 60-knot winds Thursday before conditions briefly abated.

However, her parents lost satellite phone contact early this morning and an hour later were notified by the Australian Coast Guard that both of Sunderland's EPIRB satellite devices had been activated.

One is apparently is attached to a survival suit or a life raft and meant to be used when a person is in the water or aboard a life raft.

Abby's father struggled with emotions and said he didn't know if his daughter was in a life raft or aboard the boat, or whether the boat was upside down.

"Everything seemed to be under control," Laurence Sunderland said. "But then our call dropped and a hour later the Coast Guard called."

Abby is hundreds of miles from land. The nearest ship was about 400 miles away. The rescue effort is being coordinated by the French-controlled Reunion Islands and Australia. Sunderland had been sailing in 50- to 60-foot seas and it was dark when the EPIRB devices were activated.

The Sunderlands are asking people to pray for their daughter, a high-school junior from Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Charlie Nobles, executive director of the American Sailing Assn., said, "We're all praying for her and our thoughts are with her. If she's got the survival suit, and she's got the EPIRB and she's in pretty good shape, she's just got to try to hang on. And when they get there, these guys... they're going to hopefully send the best that they've got to try to do a rescue and it's definitely possible. They're amazing people who do those rescues. They know exactly what they're heading into."

Nobles said a scenario whereby a sailor has to abandon ship might go like this: Water flooding the vessel automatically inflates the life raft, which is tethered to the sailboat. The sailor, if the sailboat is sinking, would grab the boat's EPIRB device and stuff it into a ditch kit, take the ditch kit and deploy and climb aboard the life raft. The sailor would only cut the tether if the sailboat is sinking, pulling down the lifeboat.

Abby was for several months one of two 16-year-olds attempting to sail around the world alone. Australia's Jessica Watson completed her journey last month, just days before turning 17.

Abby's brother Zac, who graduated from high school, completed a solo-circumnavigation last summer at 17.

The timing of Abby's trip was criticized by some because it was going to place her in the middle of the Indian Ocean when the stormy Southern Hemisphere winter was at hand