| ~~Australian teen completes round the world sail~~ #211121 05/15/10 03:08 AM 05/15/10 03:08 AM |
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Posts: 119 Bernhards Bay, N.Y. | Australian teen completes round-the-world sail A 16-year-old Australian who spent seven months at sea in her pink yacht sailed across the finish line of her round-the-world journey Saturday, becoming the youngest sailor to circle the globe solo, nonstop and unassisted. http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/37161350/ns/sports/from/ET I haveta give anyone alotta credit to do this,,, especialy at this age.... ^5 ~~~
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#211129 05/15/10 07:47 AM 05/15/10 07:47 AM |
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Posts: 953 Western Australia | one needs to complete the course to finish the race. Her team was warned, apparently, the course proposed wasn't eligible. Her management made the decision not to sail a full course but a shorter trip. They were also warned again towards the end of her sailing and could have rectified but again decided not to act.
So she did a semi round the world. Quite simple really
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#211154 05/15/10 06:17 PM 05/15/10 06:17 PM |
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Posts: 1,383 Kingston SE South Australia | Jessica didn't care because the rules set by a sailing magazine say no one under 18 can set the record so she told them to get stuffed and did her own thing, which is pretty amazing. Theres probably a good lesson in that regarding multi hulls and the Olympics.
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#211166 05/16/10 12:33 AM 05/16/10 12:33 AM |
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Posts: 953 Western Australia | Phile its not arbitrary
Earth's Circumference at the Equator: 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 km)
Earth's Circumference Between the North and South Poles: 24,859.82 miles (40,008 km)
its not arbitrary
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#211172 05/16/10 04:54 AM 05/16/10 04:54 AM |
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Posts: 976 France | According to the rules set by World Speed Sailing Record Council:"[...]" Her trip ticks all of those boxes so I dont see why they just wont give her the record. I don't know if you've done it on purpose, but selecting *one* sentence out of the rules and using it to prove a point disproven by the rest of the paragraph this sentence is in is, I'm sorry to say, dishonest. You can't select the part of the rule you will abide to and reject the rest. Simply providing the complete rule is refutation enough of your claim: a. RTW - Round the World, eastbound and westbound 21600NM. 2 separate records.
To sail around the World, a vessel must start from and return to the same point, must cross all meridians of longitude and must cross the Equator. It may cross some but not all meridians more than once (i.e. two roundings of Antarctica do not count). The shortest orthodromic track of the vessel must be at least 21,600 nautical miles in length calculated based on a 'perfect sphere'. In calculating this distance, it is to be assumed that the vessel will sail around Antarctica in latitude 63 degrees south. A vessel starting from any point where the direct orthodromic distance is too short shall pass one single island or other fixed point on a required side so as to lengthen his orthodromic track to the minimum distance. No starting point will be permitted more south than 45 ° south. 1 degree of longitude at 63 degrees south will be taken as 27.24NM
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Posts: 1,383 Kingston SE South Australia | It's all settled now, on the 7pm project tonight she had an arm wrestle with Jesse Martin the last 17yo to set the record before under 18yo was banned and she won so he's letting her have the record. If you can watch a copy of the interview you'll see two down to earth young Aussie sailers. They were asked the question about the distance and they both said no matter what she did they wouldn't recognise the record.
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Posts: 976 France | Does the Jules Verne or the Race follow the WSSRC recognised course........ Answer is no. Hu? Did you check your math first? The Jules Verne start in the northern hemisphere, sufficiently north to have the required number of miles. | | | Re: ~~Australian teen completes round the world sail~~
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Posts: 302 Raleigh/ Wrightsville Beach NC | from Jessica's blog Saturday, April 24, 2010 "Despite the fact that today started with a knockdown, a wet bunk, a headache and some pretty huge seas, I've had a great day." If you read through some of her blogs on http://www.jessicawatson.com.auyou can tell we are not talking about any 16 year old that know of. She's incredibly mature and knowable. I don't think she'll let any of her critics bother her. You go Girl!! | | | Re: ~~Australian teen completes round the world sail~~
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Posts: 302 Raleigh/ Wrightsville Beach NC | Things have been very slow at work today, so I've spent some time reading through Jessica's Blogs http://www.jessicawatson.com.auI find it fascinating what is going through a 16 year old's mind through this whole journey... I have a 10 and 14 year old daughters.. I can't imagine them taking something like this on at 16... or possibly ever. | | | Re: ~~Australian teen completes round the world sail~~
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Posts: 5,590 Naples, FL | as an over-protective parental type, I like the concept of no world records for folks under 18. Not that they can't circumnavigate, but they'd do it for their own reasons, not notariety...?
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