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Associated Press

Californian solo sailor Abby Sunderland said on Thursday her “heart skipped a beat” with news that the yacht she abandoned in the remote Indian Ocean in 2010 during an ill-fated round-the-world attempt had been found off the Australian coast.
South Australia Police confirmed on Wednesday that a barnacle-encrusted, upturned 12-metre hull found drifting 20 kilometres south of Kangaroo Island on Monday was Sunderland’s sloop Wild Eyes.
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Sunderland was 16 and attempting to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone and unassisted when her yacht capsized and lost its mast in mountainous seas between Africa and Australia on June 10, 2010. She was rescued two days later by a French trawler 3,200km west of Australia.
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The now 25-year-old described seeing reports of the boat’s discovery as “very emotional”.
“It brought back memories, good and not so good, but it was neat to see it after so long,” Sunderland said in a statement.

“It looked a little creepy, that’s to be expected after so long,” she added.
She said she wondered whether video equipment which she used to record her voyage was still inside and hoped that the boat would be retrieved.
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Asked if the boat, a potential navigational hazard, would be retrieved, a police spokesman, who spoke on the department’s customary condition of anonymity, said the boat had disappeared by Thursday and might have sunk.
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Californian Abby Sunderland’s boat is spotted after eight years at sea, covered in barnacles and semi-submerged. Photo: South Australia Police

epa07259301 A combo handout photo made available by South Australia Police showing an overturned vessel found off the coast of Kangaroo Island on New Year's Eve has been identified as the 'Wild Eyes' after it was spotted from the air on 31 December 2018, issued 03 January 2019. The boat 'Wild Eyes', which had been abandoned eight years ago in the middle of the Indian Ocean during a round the world voyage after it was dismasted on 10 June 2010 in rough seas halfway between the Western Australian coast and Africa in the Indian Ocean while US Abby Sunderland was attempting to become the youngest person to sail around the world solo. A rescue was coordinated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority and she was eventually rescued by a French commercial fishing vessel on 12 June 2010. EPA-EFE/SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLICE / HANDOUT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

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Abby Sunderland lost mast during capsize in remote Indian Ocean on solo round-the-world sail attempt, but return of vessel puts heart in her mouth


American teen’s abandoned yacht found eight years later near Australia after capsizing in mid-Indian Ocean

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}Abby Sunderland lost mast during capsize in remote Indian Ocean on solo round-the-world sail attempt, but return of vessel puts heart in her mouth

Abby Sunderland lost mast during capsize in remote Indian Ocean on solo round-the-world sail attempt, but return of vessel puts heart in her mouth