Jess makes running repairs" Just 48 hours earlier, the 16-year-old faced her toughest test so far with four “knockdowns” during a violent 12-hour storm which produced wind gusts of up to 70 knots and 10 metre swell in the Atlantic Ocean.
The second knockdown was the most severe, with Jessica’s boat completely upside down – its mast slammed a full 180 degrees into the water.
As her parents, Roger and Julie, held their breath back home in Buderim, the teenager battled fierce conditions and later wrote on her website that there were times she wondered just what she was doing."
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