Jessica almost home, Abby in Cape Town
by Nancy Knudsen, Cruising Editor on 6 May 2010
Jessica Watson - soon she’ll be here again, just 209 days after she departed on her round the world voyage - and she’ll still be 16 SW
Now that Australians are beginning to accept what their sailing navigators always knew, that their favourite long range sailor Jessica Watson won't be setting any records when she sails into Sydney Harbour on 15th May, they will be free to give the courageous young teenager the adulation she deserves, and records won't count at all.
Teen sailing circumnavigators British
Mike Perham and round world record holder
Jesse Martin will be there with thousands of Australians who have followed her voyage through some of the worst conditions that the infamous Southern Ocean could turn on.
In the meantime Californian teen sailor
Abby Sunderland has arrived into Cape Town to mend her autopilot before continuing her own round world adventure.
Plastiki, that yacht made of 20,000 plastic bottles has arrived in Kiribati from San Francisco on its way across the Pacific, and in another environment-inspired journey
Ian Thomson is setting out to be the fastest yacht to circumnavigate Australia, drawing attention to the damage that plastic bags do to our environment.
There's a great variety of other news. After another sailor's death, cruisers are warned about the extreme danger from pirates when sailing near the
Paria Peninsula in Venezuela, and do check out how
Somali pirates are using the world's media to further their own aims. There's the tragedy of a lost life when a
British sea cadet fell to his death, a bleak forecast about the number of
hurricanes expected in the Atlantic in the coming season, and long range US sailors need to be aware of
potential heavy tax bills if they linger in one place too long.
Grant Headifen has a new valuable sailing tip for those who take rookies on their boats for the day, and there's an amusing story about a sailor who tried to sail around Britain using a road map.
Can you separate a modern lawyer from his Blackberry? Maybe, if you take him sailing in the
British Virgins...
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