She’s far too busy, with a book to promote, a world full of fans to meet and a new sailing adventure on the horizon, Jess tells Jonica Bray.
She spent seven months battling the high seas and mastering knowledge of complex charts and tides, but unfortunately for Jessica Watson, these skills won’t appear on her school report card.
While she succeeded at age 16 in becoming the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe solo and unassisted, Jess admits her mammoth achievement has come at the cost of her studies.
“That’s been a bit hard,” Jess, now 17, tells Woman’s Day. “I’ve hardly been home but I’ve been doing distance education.”
Jess admits she won’t complete her studies this year, but isn’t worried with everything else she has going on, joking that she has blisters from signing autographs.
“I’m a bit behind with my skills and it’ll take me a bit longer to finish it,” says Jess. “But it’s not something that worries me too much. I’ve got a book that’s just been the bestseller in the country so that’s quite incredible.”
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