http://news.yahoo.com/teenage-sailor-nears-end-trip-round-world-131401187.html

Not a "record breaker" as Guinness refuses to record "youngest" accomplishments anymore. Also she did pull into ports and took breaks... sounds like a nice trip overall.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Teenage Dutch sailor Laura Dekker is nearing the finish of her solo sailing trip around the world almost the same way she began it — in good spirits, despite endless debate about the terms under which she is allowed to be at sea.

Now 16, Dekker is on the final leg, a long stint from Cape Town, South Africa, to the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, where she set sail in 2010.

But in her native Netherlands, the story of her voyage has once again been overshadowed by conflicts with the Dutch school system and bureaucrats about approval for her trip.

Apparently she was born on a sailboat... of the coast of NZ... born into sailing, eh. Nice boat. Memory of a lifetime. (so is it all downhill from here sweetheart?)