She has battled mountainous seas, intense loneliness and cold gale force winds, but Jessica Watson, 16, proved her critics wrong by becoming the youngest person to solo-circumnavigate the globe, when her yacht returned home to a momentous welcome in Sydney this morning.
“As a little girl people don’t think you’re capable of these things, they don’t realise what young people, 16-year-olds and girls are capable of,” she told the waiting crowds. “But it’s amazing what you can do.”
After more than 200 days and 23,000 nautical miles without seeing a fellow human being, an obviously overwhelmed Miss Watson fell into the arms of her family, who were clearly relieved to see her back.
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