On Saturday morning Jessica Watson will sail through Sydney heads completing her solo journey around the world. It is expected that she will be met with record crowds and a flotilla of welcoming watercraft.
At sixteen, Jessica can claim being the youngest to sail around the world alone, but already the nit pickers are finding fault and trying to discredit her achievement. It seems that the Guiness book of records does not recognise record breaking achievements by those under eighteen years of age, and other pundits cast doubt on whether the journey was long enough to be regarded as a record.
The facts are plain enough ! Jessica sailed out of Sydney heads and headed east. At the conclusion of her odyssey she was sailing west to sight the coast of western Australia - a round trip of 23,000 miles.
What more to the pundits want ?
This was a remarkable achievement for a girl who will celebrate her seventeenth birthday in a few days time. She has every right to the publicity it will attract - and the endorsement money that will flow from her well earned fame !
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