Abby Sunderland, the end of one dream but maybe on to the next...



10:20 PM Sat 26 Jun 2010 GMT
'Abby on Reunion with brother Zac' .
Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland has finally been reunited with her brother Zac on Saturday, on Reunion Island. Zac was substituting for her father, who has remained by his wife's side as she expects their eighth baby any time soon. On arrival in Reunion, she defended her family against criticism that she had been too young to try to sail around the world alone. Sunderland had spent the past 10 days on the Osiris as it returned from the Kerguelen Islands, a remote and barren patch of rocks in the ocean toward Antarctica, where she was taken briefly after the ...


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