So much for all the "expert advice" she got before and during her journey.
This is so unbelievably naive on the part of her organizers. Poor kid must be devastated.

www.sail-world.com/USA

oooops.........

That sucks..... maybe once she gets around Tazi she can head straight up the coast and do a lap of Guam....!

Somehow i think the media will overlook this small (HUGE) stuff up.

Don't worry about the media picking up on it, if it sounds sensational, they'll go to print for sure.

Re her intentions, it was always about the record books. She was inspired by Cottee and Martin as she says in the article.

But she really had a double point to prove after her little sleep at the wheel accident with that Korean bulk carrier, whereby she was labelled immature and incompetent, by the very same media.

The weirdest part of the whole saga is her trip wasn't registered with ISAF/WSSRC. If so they would have told her to go to an antipodean point.

That's like Australia winning the world cup soccer only to be disqualified for the coach not registering the team.

If she really wants "THAT" record she could head out half way to NZ and then

turn back to Siggley. I think she may well be satisfied with what she has done,

probably would enjoy a Macca's or two by now though!

How I read it was that for the WSSCR record she doesn't have to go through two antipodean points, but she just has to do extra distance going round more points(capes or islands), and not having the extra distance purely by tacking and her logged miles. So a voyage out to NZ and back would do.

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True champions don't care about "the record." It's the personal journey that really matters, isn't it?

NR...the way her track looks on her website, she hasn't gone around 1 antipodean yet, that's the beef with WSSRC. When she did the u-turn just north of the equator, she had to be sure that if she had stopped right there and shot a line thru the centre of the earth, thru to the other side, it would hit where she had been or was going to go, in a north -south sense. Because she did the u-turn just north of EQ, the line would have popped out just south of EQ.(not 40 to 60 odd south where she sailed).

In the eyes of the officials, this is "cutting the corner" big time and is veiwed pretty badly as such. She shaved weeks off her race time by not going up well north of Hawaiin lattitudes, doing the u-turn and back to the Horn. Each degree of lattitude = 60nm or 10 hours at full speed. EQ to 40 north and back to EQ =80 degrees= 800 hours at 6kts full speed.

BTW it was a race against Jesse Martin, to be the youngest around the full track.

I feel so sorry for her to get pipped by her own planners.

you have to be over 18 for the WSSRC to recognise your voyage....

and she started so well..

www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/jessica-watson-to-press-on-with-world-trip-despite-crash-20090909-fg8w.html