US News
California kid sails solo round the world
Jul 17, 2009, 16:09 GMT
Los Angeles - A California teenager became the youngest person to sail around the world alone Tuesday completing a 13-month voyage when he sailed into the Marina Del Rey harbour in his 12-metre sloop.
Zac Sunderland sailed 28,000 nautical miles (51,860 kilometres) and was greeted by a small flotilla and hundreds of supporters as he beat a record held by Australia's Jesse Martin, who was 18 when he finished his voyage in 1999. Sunderland departed Marina del Rey, California when he was 16 on June 14, 2008, and celebrated his 17th birthday at sea while off Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
Sunderland sailed a westerly course, crossing three oceans and five seas, and crossed the equator twice, despite a pirate scare, a broken boom, broken tiller, broken forestay rigging, a broken bulkhead, and an incident in which he was swamped and almost washed overboard by a rogue wave off Grenada.
COMMENT
blog comments powered by DisqusLatest Headlines in US
- 1. Mitt Romney Addresses Tea Party Summit Pictures
- 2. Seven injured as US Navy plane crashes into apartments
- 3. At least three injured in US Navy plane crash
- 4. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, others to face death penalty trial
- 5. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, four others to face death penalty trial
Older Talkback
page: 1
stoned out of his mind, again. I guess he got fired from the car wash and can't find a job in Oregon. No one will have him, not even the family dog, who got tired of f*cking an idiot.
...I could be a white trash twentysomething with no point of view, enslaved to his own insults in such a way to point out his total ignorance of the world around him, wanking his way from one meaningless post to another. Honestly, were it not for my posts, he'd have nothing to say!
Then I'd be Juuuuuust like the poster above, right monkey boy? Honestly, would it be soo hard to opine on one single topic?
Apparantly so.
Now run along and for god sakes, turn off the Jonas brothers teen beat stuff and go to a news website just once.
'I could be a white trash twentysomething with no point of view, enslaved to his own insults in such a way to point out his total ignorance of the world around him, wanking his way from one meaningless post to another'
Could be? How about ARE.
Once againh sh*t for brains, twenty something is two words. Use a spell check. Or better yet, get your truck stop mommy to do it for you. That way it might not get f*cked up.
...monkey boy...who knows..you might say somethng meaningful by accident...
page: 1
SP4: probablyJul 17th, 2009 - 17:38:47
..running away from the glaring failure of a state and it's new pot-on-a-stick campaign. I guess he just said no to drugs.
Report this comment