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Jessica Watson nears Cape Horn

January 14, 2010

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Australian teenager Jessica Watson hopes to round Cape Horn today, part-way through her quest to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world singlehanded and non-stop.

Watson, 16, sailed from Sydney on October 18 and has described Cape Horn as the half-way point for the trip aboard her 10-metre yacht, Ella's Pink Lady. "It's looking like we'll be rounding the Cape first thing tomorrow morning," Watson wrote on her blog. "Fingers crossed that the cloud lifts a little, and I get a half-decent view as we sail past."

Read more here: http://www.pbo.co.uk/news/438189/jessica-watson-nears-cape-horn

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