yachting

Chronicles the events of the 1996-1997 Vendee Globe, a grueling four-month circumnavigation of the globe through the Southern Ocean.

Jessica Watson spent 210 days at sea and traveled more than 22,000 nautical miles in a 33-foot boat, unassisted and solo, in her nonstop trip around the world. When the sixteen-year-old returned to Australia, where she still lives, on May 15, 2010, she became the youngest person to ever accomplish this feat. And she left behind forever the young girl she once was, afraid of everything with no self-confidence.

Successful businessman John Silverwood and his wife, Jean, both experienced sailors, decided the time was right to give their four children a taste of life on the high seas. Their journey aboard the fifty-five-foot catamaran, the Emerald Jane, would have many extraordinary and profound moments but John's dream trip that began on Long Island Sound ended badly almost two years later. In a nightmare of treacherous waters, off a remote atoll in French Polynesia, the ocean dealt the Emerald Jane a death blow in an explosion of awesome violence and the Silverwoods just barely survived the ordeal.

Chronicles the events of the 1996-1997 Vendee Globe, a grueling four-month circumnavigation of the globe through the Southern Ocean.

Fifteen-year-old Brodie embarks on a desperate rescue mission when his father falls overboard from their small yacht in the middle of the night, and Brodie learns he has been mistaken for a wealthy businessman and is being held for ransom.