When fifteen year-old Laura Dekker left home after a fight, it wasn't about curfew or clothes or homework.
Just days away from her 17th birthday, Jessica Watson is about to arrive at Sydney Harbor, where tens of thousands are expected to welcome her.
Sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland was probably relieved to finally get started on her non-stop solo circum
One of the most important lessons of our journey was learning that we are, as Socrates put it, “citizen(s) of the world.”
A sixteen-year-old Australian solo circumnavigator rounded Cape Horn this morning, surfing down high seas before 35-knot gusts and waving to the folks back home cheering her
When we left Jessica, she had just crossed the equator and officially become a shellback.
Australian teen circumnavigator Jessica Watson is now a shellback. That's the term we other shellbacks use for the metamorphosis of a polliwog who crosses the equator.
