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 PARIS (AP) - Billionaires Ernesto Bertarelli and Larry Ellison are so massively rich that they can afford to build two of the most awe-inspiring yachts that ocean racing has ever seen. Yet both are being outshone, even shamed, by 16-year-old sailors with a fraction of their means.
Such as Jessica Watson. The Australian and her bubble-gum pink 34-foot single-master are somewhere in the Pacific now, a couple of weeks into her quest to sail alone and unassisted around the world. Another 16-year-old, Abigail Sunderland, hopes to set sail from California on her solo circumnavigation in December.
No fuss, no theatrics, just two kids realizing their dreams, with the same sailing spirit of adventure that over the centuries pushed back the frontiers of mankind's world.
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