Sister act

Solo sailor’s 15-year-old sister plans a voyage of her own | Mark Bergin

Associated Press/Photo by Laurence Sunderland

Marianne Sunderland's 13-month stint of motherly worry and earnest prayers ended this past July when her 17-year-old son Zac landed his one-man sailing vessel at Marina del Rey in California. The homecoming completed a voyage that made the savvy teenager the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the globe alone.

But the story does not end there for this mother of seven. Zac's little sister Abby, 15, has announced plans to duplicate her brother's feat. What's more, she's aiming for a nonstop trip that will take her the opposite way around the world and around each of the globe's major capes. Marianne Sunderland will hardly have time to catch her breath before her little girl casts off in late November.

"I'm not the adventurer type, so I find it hard to fathom why you would even want to do this," the homeschooling mother says. "It's better than taking algebra, I guess."

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October 24, 2009, Vol. 24, No. 21

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