In the news this week 16 year old Californian Zac Sunderland will attempt to break the record for the youngest solo global circumnavigation aboard a 36 ft yacht starting on the 31st May. Meanwhile ICAP Leopard, the Farr 100 super maxi yacht, is in New York waiting for an opportunity to challenge the monohull transatlantic record for a yacht crossing the Atlantic. Pirates are still active off Somalia this time seizing a Jordanian ship. Somali Islamists threaten to take action against the pirates. In an accident off the North East coast of Australia a British Woman had to be rescued when her husband was accidentally killed by the boom in their 15 metre sloop. These and other stories appear on Yachtbuddy.com this week.