Tearful teenage sailor Jessica Watson, right, hugs her mother Julie as her father, Roger looks on as Jessica prepares to depart Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, in her boat Ella's Pink Lady in her attempt to become the youngest person to sail nonstop, solo and unassisted, around the world. Watson, 16, in her newly refit 34-foot yacht will cover nearly 23,000 nautical miles on a journey that will take her from Australia's east coast and across the equator, south to Cape Horn at the tip of South America, across the Atlantic Ocean to South Africa, through the Indian Ocean and south of Australia back home in seven to eight months. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)