JESSICA WATSON

Her boat's called Ella's Pink Lady. It is 10 meters long and it's candy pink! The sailing world being very masculine, Jess made her mark by drowning out the preconceived idea that a woman brings bad luck at sea. 

This superstition was born in the days when ships weren't as fast as they were then and the entire crew would be away from their families for months at a time. Women stirred lust, jealousy, passions and were manhandled by sailors. Whenever there was a problem on the ship, the woman was blamed.

 

So to avoid mental and physical frustration, women were not allowed on a boat and were made to look like they were bringing misfortune. This superstition continued until the 18th century. 

So, yes, Jessica Watson is one of those women today who set standards and forged new ones. She's leaving Australia.

So the adventure unfolds like the crossing of the skippers who criss-cross the oceans of our blue planet. The elements are unpredictable. So this storm of force 12, she faces it with maturity and without cold, although fear twists her stomach.

 

Winds exceed 115 km/h and the raging sea makes 10-meter waves. That night, the boat capsizes four times. And when Jess pulls herself out of her cabin to repair the damage, two dolphins come to visit her. As if to make sure she made it through. 

On several occasions, she will be lucky enough to be accompanied by these large cetaceans that play at the front of the boat. For despite the storms that she will still have to go through, the good weather will fill her batteries and she will start off again. 
While the sailor had the opportunity, she never pressed the distress beacon.

 

She completely managed to overcome her fears and control herself as much as possible. At the age of 16, in the middle of the ocean, she lived her dream. And it lasts seven months. Sometimes she can't wait to get home to her family. And often she wants to stay longer, to sail further.

Setting out from Sydney Harbour on October 18, 2009, aboard her 10-metre pink sailboat, named Ella's Pink Lady, the young sailor covered 23,000 miles, or about 40,000 kilometres. From Fiji to Samoa, via the Equator, but also and above all via the three mythical capes Horn, Good Hope and Lewin, Jessica Watson has faced winds, icebergs and solitude.

 

She arrives a month ahead of schedule on 15th May 2010. After the shock of returning to civilization, she says,"People didn't think I could do a thing like that. They don't realize what young people... are capable of."