Jessica Watson, 16-years-old, has nearly six months at sea, more than 20,000 miles behind her as she continues on her mission, and it’s a big one. Jessica is on her way to being the? youngest person to sail solo non-stop and unassisted around the World.?
She has kept a very detailed blog? about her journey, often talking about the squid? she finds on the deck in the morning (pictured below), that have often found their way to lunch. She has also kept? a YouTube video channel. In a recent post, she described her conditions:
“Things got pretty interesting for a while last night, when what I thought was just a light passing squall, turned into a full on electrical storm, the worst I’ve seen at sea yet. Even though I could hardly see it through the icy cold sideways rain, the lightning was striking the water nearby much too close for my liking. The wind gusted pretty high too.
But the wind soon dropped again and as it did, the rain really started. It was so heavy that you could hardly see where the water stopped and the sky began. A bit of thunder has never worried me, but alone at sea at 4 in the morning, it seems particularly menacing and it becomes a lot harder to keep your nerves in check!”
