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What does Laura Dekker do now?
She has been working towards doing long-distance educational sailings with children. She founded Laura Dekker World Sailing Foundation. She obtained a 21 meter long ship (named Guppy). In November 2020 Dekker and a young crew took away from Spain, heading for the Caribbean islands, and back.
How old is Jessica Watson?
29 years (May 18, 1993)Jessica Watson / Age
Who is Bob from sailing Doodles?
Bobby White
Bobby White was a corporate jet pilot before an unexpected health condition changed his life forever. Instead of viewing his change of career as a setback, he created Sailing Doodles. Since then, he’s been sailing his boat around the world and documenting his travels on YouTube.
What did Jessica Watson do?
Jessica Watson (OAM) navigated some of the world’s most remote oceans and survived seven knockdowns and 210 days alone at sea to become the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop around the world, aged 16.
How many days did it take Jessica Watson to sail around the world?
210 days
Jessica Watson (OAM) navigated some of the world’s most remote oceans and survived seven knockdowns and 210 days alone at sea to become the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop around the world, aged 16.
What is Laura last name on Sailing Doodles?
Laura AKA LaLa Libra on Twitter: “DO YOU FOLLOW????
What happened to the boat on Sailing Doodles?
On the night of November 15, 2020, in heavy seas with winds topping 40 knots, the transmission to our boat Nauti Dogs suffered a catastrophic failure which caused a fire and subsequent flooding of the boat.
Where is Abby Sunderland now?
Alabama
Today, Sunderland is married and lives in Alabama; she’s the mother of three kids, with a fourth expected soon.
What do you learn when you sail around the world alone?
What do you learn when you sail around the world on your own? When solo sailor Ellen MacArthur circled the globe – carrying everything she needed with her – she came back with new insight into the way the world works, as a place of interlocking cycles and finite resources, where the decisions we make today affect what’s left for tomorrow.
Who is the youngest person to sail around the world alone?
In this excerpt from the full-length documentary Maidentrip, Dekker follows the route her parents took 20 years earlier through French Polynesia. Today, Dekker holds the record for the youngest person to sail around the world by herself.
How long did Jessica Watson sail around the world alone?
Australian Jessica Watson sailed around the world alone from October 2009 to May 2010 at the age of 16, but some sailing experts note that because she didn’t sail far enough north of the equator, her voyage would not be recognized as true circumnavigation by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.
Who was the first person to sail a ship around the world?
The first people to sail a ship around the world were the handful of survivors of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, which was completed in 1522. Joshua Slocum set the record for the first solo trip around the world on his boat Spray in 1898.