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SOLO teen sailing sensation Jessica Watson has been catching up with friends, eating hot meals and watching the latest Twilight movie since her return home.
By Anouk Lorie for CNN 16-year-old Jessica Watson is one of several teenagers wanting to navigate solo around the globe STORY HIGHLIGHTS ...
Normal, for Jessica Watson, is hanging out with friends, going to the movies, heading to the shops. It's studying sociology and sailing for fun. The latter will see Watson, now 19, and sailing ...
Business Don't miss out on the headlines from Business. Followed categories will be added to My News. JESSICA Watson will be named today as the face of Tourism Queensland’s Season of Sailing ...
Returning to race the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in 2023 is also a way for Jessica Watson to honour the love of her life Cam Dale and to remember great times they had together at sea. It was ...
Jessica said she found living in constant motion much harder than the physical work of sailing. "The constant motion, it does get to you after a while, especially after a rough week," she said.
Watson says she first dreamed of sailing around the world by herself when she was around 11 and her mother, Julie, read her Jesse Martin's biography, "." ...
Ella’s Pink Lady after the yacht berthed at Evans Head yesterday for repairs. The sailing boat was used by Jessica Watson to complete her record-breaking solo circumnavigation of the glode.
Jessica Watson, 16, was on a 10-day test journey when she hit a 63 000-tonne freighter in a busy shipping lane off Queensland state, snapping her pink yacht’s mast and damaging its rigging and hull.
THE company behind the $189 million box office success, Lion, is drawing closer to producing a film based on Sunshine Coast teen, Jessica Watson's inspiring life story.
Jessica Watson fell in love with a young sailor in her first Sydney to Hobart. Now she’s returning to ensure others don’t have to experience the depth of pain she has after his death. Amanda ...