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Sep 20, 2010 · 210 Days: Around the World with Jessica Watson. TV Movie. 2010. 2h 32m. IMDb RATING. 7.5 /10. 24. YOUR RATING. Rate. Documentary. Add a plot in your language. Stars. Richard Branson. Jessica Watson. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist. Photos. Add photo. Cast 2. Richard Branson. Narrator. Jessica Watson. Self. All cast & crew.
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Sailing more than 24,000 nautical miles in 210 days, Jessica had to overcome much adversity to achieve her dream – she battled sleep deprivation, gale force winds, mountainous seas and solitude, before stopping the nation and attracting massive global coverage when she sailed back into Sydney.
Feb 2, 2023 · Nothing rocks the boat for long in this can-do drama based on the true story of Jessica Watson, an Australian teenager who sailed the globe.
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Jessica Watson sailed around the world, alone, as a teenager.
Before Jessica Watson steered her 34-foot yacht across four oceans, circling the globe without stopping once, her yacht had a collision with a 63,000-ton bulk carrier during the first night of a sea trial. Her boat, Ella’s Pink Lady, lost its mast. Her quest to sail around the world before her 17th birthday was already controversial, and the collision only seemed to strengthen the arguments against the young Australian—that she was too young, too inexperienced, and too immature. (These were also directed at Watson’s parents and two other young wannabe circumnavigators, siblings Zak and Abby Sunderland.) But Watson, who was raised on sailboats and is more poised than most, quietly returned to port, tended to her broken ship, and returned to sea. “Any doubts about whether I could cope mentally,” Watson later wrote, “vanished…I was stronger, more determined, and ready….”
On May 15, 2010, after 210 days, the smiling 16-year-old arrived in Sydney Harbor, the youngest single-handed, non-stop, unassisted circumnavigator of all time. This, too, would become controversial, for detractors took Watson to task for not sailing far enough into the Northern Hemisphere. No matter. Tens of thousands of fans came out to greet her triumphant return to Australia, while millions watched on national television. But perhaps more impressive were the numbers of people following her journey in real time, through her blog. Watson once wrote: “I could write about a fly landing on Ella's Pink Lady and someone would find it interesting.” And 447 encouraging comments followed.
—By Ryan Bradley
IN MY OWN WORDS
By Jessica Watson
I’m on boats all the time, just hanging around marinas, shipyards, studying every part of a boat, and celestial navigation, too. Before I left, the longest voyage I’d been on was 14 days straight, though I had almost 10,000 miles sea time through the Tasman, Pacific, and the Southern Arctic Oceans.
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For me, the most important thing was preparation and the amazing team of people around me, who just wouldn’t have let me leave unless I was ready. You need an incredible amount of support to achieve something like this, and I was lucky. I’m not saying everyone should go out and sail around the world.
Jessica Watson (OAM) navigated some of the world’s most remote oceans and survived seven knockdowns and 210 days alone at sea to become the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop around the world, aged 16.
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