Jessica+Watson

==Jessica Watson by Miss Hill== Jessica Watson from Queensland (born 1993) is the youngest person to sail non-stop around the world solo. She sailed from Sydney on 18.10.2009, travelling over the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. (See the map below). She returned to Sydney on 15.5.2010. Her boat was called Ella's Pink Lady. She was 16 years old.

Her record is unofficial because she did not follow the World Sailing Speed Record Council's rules //exactly//. The official world record is held by Jesse Martin (born 1981) who was 18 in 1999 when he became the youngest person to sail around the world solo, non-stop, and without any help.

(Many people think that it was foolish to allow such a young person to go on such a long and dangerous voyage by herself, and the World Sailing Speed Record Council does not keep records for the Youngest Sailor any more because they are worried that somebody younger than Jessica Watson might try it.).

Jessica Watson was awarded Young Australian of the Year in 2011, and a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2012. She has also written a book called True Spirit.



Permission to use the picture of Jessica Watson in her boat off the coast of Cape Horn comes from Wikipedia under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Licence. The author of the picture is Andrew Fraser (manager of Jessica Watson) 13.1.2010. See

Permission to use the map of Jessia Watson's sailing route comes from Wikipedia under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence. The author of the picture is Moondyne, who drew it freehand on a blank map of the world using data from [] and uploaded it to Wikipedia. See.

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