Teen Zac Sunderland completes sail

The the youngest sailor to sail around the world alone, Zac Sunderland, ended his 13-month journey in Marina del Rey.

[via] Sunderland, 17, who departed Marina del Rey when he was 16 on June 14, 2008, becomes the youngest person to have sailed alone around the world — and the first to do it before turning 18.

He beat a record held by Australia’s Jesse Martin, who was 18 when he finished his voyage in 1999.

After departing on a westerly course, he crossed three oceans and five seas, and crossed the equator twice, covering more than 25,000 miles. He endured a pirate scare, a broken boom, broken tiller, broken forestay rigging, a broken bulkhead, and he was swamped and almost washed overboard by a rogue wave off Grenada.