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Teen Sets Out On Solo, Worldwide Sailing Trip
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (CBS) -- Sixteen-year-old sailor Abby Sunderland set out from Marina del Rey Saturday on a nonstop, solo trip around the world. If the winds are favorable, she could become the youngest person to ever do it.
She had a look of "resolution" on her face as she sailed out of the marina, determined to take on a voyage that she has been longing for since she was 13, spokesperson Matt Tolnick said.
"Throughout the press conference she was very confident. She knows about the risk. I think the basic message was to not give up on your dreams," Tolnick said. "There were close to a dozen boats escorting her out. The Sheriff's Department and Los Angeles County lifeguard boats were a part of the send off, beeping and sending out water."
The Thousand Oaks teenager had been waiting for the local weather to break.
She is sailing in a high-tech open-ocean racing design called Wild Eyes -- an Open 40.
From Cape Horn, she will head east into the South Atlantic and around the Cape of Good Hope, through the Indian Ocean and back into the Pacific. The entire trip could take about six months.
"I had begun to think that dreams are meant to be more than dreams and that in reality dreams don't come true," Abby wrote on her Web site. "Then my brother (Zac) left on his trip. It was amazing to see all the support that he got from around the world and to see who everyone worked together to help make his dream reality. Watching him do this really made me believe that I could too."
Sutherland's older brother Zac briefly became the world's youngest solo circumnavigator last year at age 17.
Click HERE to Visit Abby's Blog
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (CBS) -- Sixteen-year-old sailor Abby Sunderland set out from Marina del Rey Saturday on a nonstop, solo trip around the world. If the winds are favorable, she could become the youngest person to ever do it.
She had a look of "resolution" on her face as she sailed out of the marina, determined to take on a voyage that she has been longing for since she was 13, spokesperson Matt Tolnick said.
"Throughout the press conference she was very confident. She knows about the risk. I think the basic message was to not give up on your dreams," Tolnick said. "There were close to a dozen boats escorting her out. The Sheriff's Department and Los Angeles County lifeguard boats were a part of the send off, beeping and sending out water."
The Thousand Oaks teenager had been waiting for the local weather to break.
She is sailing in a high-tech open-ocean racing design called Wild Eyes -- an Open 40.
From Cape Horn, she will head east into the South Atlantic and around the Cape of Good Hope, through the Indian Ocean and back into the Pacific. The entire trip could take about six months.
"I had begun to think that dreams are meant to be more than dreams and that in reality dreams don't come true," Abby wrote on her Web site. "Then my brother (Zac) left on his trip. It was amazing to see all the support that he got from around the world and to see who everyone worked together to help make his dream reality. Watching him do this really made me believe that I could too."
Sutherland's older brother Zac briefly became the world's youngest solo circumnavigator last year at age 17.
Click HERE to Visit Abby's Blog
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