<span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Tahoma; "><div>Sailors appear to be getting younger and older these days.<br/></div><div><br /></div><div>Take Jessica Watson (15), the sprightly Aussie girl about to take on the world and her male compatriots.</div><div><br /></div><div>The young gun recently sailed to Tasmania on the cat Big Wave Rider with experienced short-handed sailor Bruce Arms before taking off to New Zealand for a voyage into the deep Southern Ocean on an expedition vessel.<br/></div><div><br /></div><div>Next she wings it to Hawaii for a delivery to Los Angeles aboard the 68-footer Ragtime. After which the young salt should be up to speed for a tilt at the prestigious youngest-round-the-world sailing title beginning November this year.</div><div><br /></div><div>Should she be successful, Watson will be a year younger than record holder Jesse Martin, who remains the youngest non-stop unassisted circumnavigator. Martin, an unstoppable adventurer, set that record in 1999 when he was 18 years of age.<br/></div><div><br /></div><div>David Dicks was a few months younger than Martin but his was an assisted non-stop record set in 1996.<br/></div><div><br /></div><div>Like her Aussie predecessors, Watson aims to set sail in an S&amp;S 34 yacht.<br/></div></span><div><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Tahoma; "><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Tahoma; ">Jessica v Jesse. One to watch.</span> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Tahoma; "><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Tahoma; ">Blogs and more at www.youngestround.com.</span> <div><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Tahoma; "><br /></span></div></div></div>

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