Comments on: Jessica Watson completes her mission: Sailing around the world at 16

By: Cool Girl25

Cool Girl25 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:18:00 +0000

She is a great inspiration to me even though I have written I comment beneath I just want to say”Welcome Home!”

By: Cool Girl25

Cool Girl25 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:00:00 +0000

i think she did the right thing by following her dream.I would have done the same if i was her age but i am not i am way younger than she is!

By: chris wallace

chris wallace — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:10:19 +0000

Jessica is an inspiration to all of us, that’s why I use her pic (waving to the crowd) as a watermark on my course syllabus (I teach University level Accounting in the US). I too, experienced the elements at 16 (crossing the Atlantic in a 75′ ketch). I remember how scared I felt at times (especially in storms) but took comfort in the fact that we had an experienced skipper (ex-Merchant Marine Captain). I didn’t have the knowledge, confidence or the courage to go it alone. But Jessica, at her tender age, had it (where did the ‘power’ come from?). I’m now 72. I’m still in awe of this kid! I’m not Australian but ‘seems to me, you people can produce the right stuff! Good on ‘ya, mates!

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By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:58:23 +0000

i LOVED this story. and i completely agree with some of the earlier comments that people who crap all over your out-of-the-box dreams are just people who aren’t living their own lives to the fullest, in whatever way that may be. i live a pretty unconventional life, travelling a lot, living in other countries, and often people tell me how ‘brave’ i am and how they could ‘never do that’. i don’t get it! anyone can do anything they want! i don’t think i’m brave at all, i just know what makes me happy and feeds my soul, and i live my life accordingly. it sounds like Jessica takes the same approach. laugh in the face of dissenters! follow your heart! it’s the ONLY way to live fully.

cheesy quote to end this: “Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking”.

By: Carlo Alcos

Carlo Alcos — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:15:39 +0000

I’m about to cycle from Queens into Manhattan. I’ve mapped out a route and am going to be wearing a helmet. However, this won’t stop a car from hitting me or a rogue pedestrian crossing my path, but I’ll still do it.

Not quite the same scale, I know, but risk is inherent in everything we do in life. All we can do is be as prepared as possible. This just goes to show how much she really wanted it – knowing the great risks, having to go against all her critics – and at 16. I think she has maturity well beyond what many people twice or thrice (can I say that?) her age.

By: benji

benji — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:20:30 +0000

Jessica should certainly be congratulated on making it back safely after such an achievement, but there was a degree of luck involved too.

You can make all the preparations in the world and still be caught out in life-threatening conditions any time you go to sea and i think this is what some of the naysayers were concerned about.
Thankfully she snuck though unscathed.

On the other hand, veteran seadogs are going to be in just as much trouble if they’re dismasted in the southern ocean, so age isn’t that much of a factor when you’re at the mercy of the sea.

She took a risk and pulled it off.
Kudos, kid.

By: Syed Ahmad

Syed Ahmad — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:32:58 +0000

Well, doing this at the age of 16 and by a female…it’s unbelievable in my part of the world (pakistan/Asia)…I am 28, and recently planned to go to Kalasha festival (Chehlam Jusht), an indigenous community in the Himallian mountains, but couldn’t make kaz I was worried how would I manage to spent three days without electricity, gas, well furnished rooms etc….and this kid…she has been superb…in her thinking, and doings…and dreaming so big and achieving it..and I would give half the credit to her parents as well…kaz they have been groomed her to do so….and the last, but not the least…correcting the prime minister of the country…it’s like putting a cherry on the cake….and lastly I would say, forget about the critics…it’s what they can only do….Great job Jessica…