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Australian Jesse Martin currently holds the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) record for the youngest person to circumnavigate the world, solo, non-stop, and unassisted. Recently the WSSRC have discontinued their endorsement of the age records for youngest (and oldest) circumnavigators.
| Sailor | Port of departure | Date of departure |
Date completed |
Duration (days) |
Age at completion |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Robin Lee Graham  USA
|
Los Angeles, USA | 14 September 1965 | 30 April 1970 | 1689 | 21 years, 56 days | Solo, with stops. See The Dove (film). |
| Tania Aebi USA
|
New York | 28 May 1985 | 6 November 1987 | 892 | 21 years, 30 days | Solo, with stops. She had a passenger for a short stretch (80 nm). |
| Brian Caldwell USA
|
Honolulu, Hawai`i | 1 June 1995 | 20 September 1996 | 477 | 20 years, 278 days | Solo, with stops. Westerly via Panama Canal. |
David Dicks  AUS
|
Fremantle | 26 February 1996 | 17 November 1996 | 265 | 18 years, 42 days | Solo, non-stop, with assistance. |
| Jesse Martin AUS
|
Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne | 8 December 1998 | 31 October 1999 | 327 | 18 years, 66 days | Solo, non-stop, and unassisted. |
| Zac Sunderland USA
|
Marina del Rey, California | 14 June 2008 | 16 July 2009 | 396 | 17 years, 229 days | Westerly, via Papua New Guinea, Cape of Good Hope, Panama Canal. Solo, with stops and assistance. |
Michael Perham  UK
|
Portsmouth, UK | 16 November 2008 | 27 August 2009 | 284 | 17 years, 164 days | Easterly, via Panama Canal. Solo, with stops and assistance. |
| Jessica Watson AUS
|
Sydney | 18 October 2009 | ETA: April/May 2010 | Currently underway. Planning to complete voyage solo, non-stop, and unassisted. | ||
| Abby Sunderland USA
|
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico | planned Feburary 2010 | ETA: June/July 2010 | Departed from California, but has to stop for repair in Mexico and will restart. Planning to complete voyage solo, non-stop, and unassisted. | ||
Laura Dekker  NED
|
Planning to leave in September 2010. |
- WSSRC. "Other Kinds of Sailing Records". Retrieved 27 October 2009.
- http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20097653,00.html
- Lionhart by Jesse Martin.
- "BJ and His Youngest Single-handed Record". holoholo.org: Marine & Ocean Sports News. From NorthWest Yachting Magazine January 1996. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
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- "Youngest solo circumnavigators". www.worldsailingrecords.com. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
- "Zac Sunderland completes solo sail around the world". LA Times. July 17, 2009.
- ^ "British teen becomes youngest to sail world solo". Reuters. Aug 27, 2009.
- "Kids today, all they want to do is sail around the world -- alone". LA Times. August 21, 2009.