Official Jessica Watson Blog

Hiya Jesse,  Gee its good to see ya.  Sorry I have missed posting for a while.  Still think about you everyday.  I am so glad I have the day off tomorrow, so I will be reading and catching up on all of your news.   Great to see you are still so positive and up beat.    

What is that saying, “a rolling stone gathers no moss, except the zipper on your pants may experience some corrosion”…….

Checked your voyage map today at work… Wow…  you are sneaking up on home, and how good is it to see all those pink Ella flags all around the world, coming home.  I have my voyage chart on the wall, it is a lot larger then what I thought it would be, but I have been sticking on the stickers as we/you go…

Title for your book, I would like to add mine to the large list ….  “Pass the Line” 

It is inspired by your story you told us when you talked of how when you were young fellow yachties would not hand you the “line” to tie down their boats / yacht.   Only because they thought you were a mere kid….they helped shape your determination…  I loved that story.

Well look at what you have achieved, you had to pass the line of other people’s negative opinion, you went passed the line of dealing with loneliness, fear, fatigue,  to achieve your dream….You did every longitude and latitude line and you also took your support crew and family ‘pass the line’ with you.!!!  Irrespective of the name of the book, I want to buy two, one for never opening, to keep it perfect, and one to read.

mmmm…maybe that is a good name…”keep it perfect”.  “perfect in pink”…I could go on and on….so must go.

Need to go read heaps and heaps…..see you tomorrow.  Have fun Jesse, Cheers Paula

How to use html to format your text:

To create a paragraph, put the characters open angle bracket < , the letter p, and close angle bracket > before the text comprising the paragraph. At the end of the text, close off the paragraph with the character sequence open angle bracket <, forward slash /, p, close angle bracket >.
You can force a line break using open angle bracket <, letter b, letter r, forward slash /, close angle bracket >.

See the example below, where I have inserted some single quotes around the first angle bracket to turn off the formatting. This lets you see the "raw" format. I follow this with text containing the proper html tags, as they are called, (meaning I took out those single quotes). The tags are now interpreted as formatting commands.

The best way to do this is to use a text editor to compose your message, inserting html tags as appropriate. Now save the file with an .html extension (example: test.html), and use your browser to open the file. Your browser should parse the tags, and show you the formatted text. If it doesn't appear the way you want it to, go back and fix it. Once it looks good, copy and paste the text with html tags into the comment section on the web site.

For more information, Google html tutorial.

Example:

It looks awfully nice out there! Almost like
just another sunny day out on the bay,
with Angela in the background, blaring away:

"Clear the way, she's coming through"

Hey, Captain Jesse, are you surfing too fast, that the PPP got you and gave you a ticket ? (PPP= Porpoises Police Patrol)
We are all waiting for fresh news, we miss you.

Smooth but fast sailing, Dream Sailor, you armchair army is ready for a giant Jessica Walk any time you send the signal!!!