Abby's Blog 
 
 It has been my dream since I was 13 years old and began single-handing, to one day sail solo around the world. I am 16 years old and this blog will contain the story of my attempt to become the world's youngest solo circumnavigator. Visit my official website at www.abbysunderland.com. ||||| Abby Sunderland, teen sailor adrift in Indian Ocean, rescued by French ship, vows to sail again 
 
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 The California teen who launched a solo around-the-world boat trip was plucked from the waters off Australia by a fishing trawler Saturday as her bid to make history ended. 
 
 Abby Sunderland, 16, spoke with her parents after she was saved from the treacherous Indian Ocean, where her sailboat Wild Eyes was pounded by 30-foot waves. 
 
 "It's been a little bit crazy these past few days," Sunderland told ABC Radio after her rescue. 
 
 "Everything's happened pretty fast but I was really lucky that there was a boat that could come and get me where I was." 
 
 The teen was uninjured despite three days stranded in heavy seas. Sunderland sent out a distress signal Thursday after the mast on her boat collapsed, cutting off her satellite communications. 
 
 Sunderland told ABC Radio that she was in good spirits, and wasn't giving up on her hopes of completing the solo trip. 
 
 "I'm definitely going to sail around the world again or at least give it another try," she said. 
 
 "I don't know when I'll get another chance to do it, but I've wanted to sail around the world for years and I'm definitely going to do it sometime." 
 
 At the family's home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., eight pink balloons were tied to a white picket fence bearing a hand-written sign: "Thank God Abby's alive." 
 
 The Sunderlands are "just ecstatic that she is alive and well and survived the ordeal," said her father, Laurence Sunderland, on the "Today" show. 
 
 The French ship Ile De La Reunion brought Sunderland aboard in a rescue complicated by the rough conditions. The fishing boat's captain went into the water at one point, forcing the crew to rescue him, too. 
 
 The reunion between Sunderland and her family is at least a week away, authorities said. She will spend two days on the French ship before a transfer to another craft that will take her to Reunion Island, east of Madagascar. 
 
 The teen set off from Marina del Rey, Calif., on Jan. 23 in hopes of becoming the youngest person ever to sail around the globe solo and nonstop. 
 
 The record was held at one point by her brother, Zac. Her hopes of setting a new mark ended in April, but she decided to continue the trip anyway. 
 
 The badly damaged sailboat will likely be sunk. 
 
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– Abby Sunderland says she's "safe and sound" aboard a French fishing ship after being rescued from her Indian Ocean misadventure. "The long and the short of it is, well, one long wave, and one short mast," the 16-year-old writes on her blog from the rescue ship. She's already getting calls from the press "eager to pounce on my story now that something bad has happened," she says. Abby also told ABC Radio she plans to try her solo round-the-world trip again, notes the Daily News. "There are plenty of things people can think of to blame for my situation; my age, the time of year and many more," she writes on her blog. "The truth is, I was in a storm and you don't sail through the Indian Ocean without getting in at least one storm. It wasn't the time of year it was just a Southern Ocean storm. Storms are part of the deal when you set out to sail around the world."