When I was 17, I was not sailing solo 'round the world

Not like Thousand Oaks' Zac Sunderland, who's due to return to Marina del Rey in a couple of weeks -- pray for him -- and is the cover story in the June 15 issue of ESPN The Magazine.

He's trying to become the youngest to circumnavigate the globe, on a ship, although he's already run into another kid from England named Mike Perham who's trying to do the same thing -- and faster -- from the opposite direction.

Sunderland left Marina del Rey on June 14 (back when he was 16) and by the time he returns, he'll have probably sailed some 24,000-plus nautical miles, passing through the Panama Canal to Grenada, around Cape Town in South Africa (where Sunderland and Perham actually crossed paths), hitting the tip of Darwin, Australia and then New Guiena, the Marshall islands, Hawaii and then back home, on his 36-foot Islander called Intrepid that he bought for $6,000.

Read more of the story about how his trip has already included getting blindsided by a 30-foot wave, losing his radar 10 months into the journey, and how his parents, Laurence and Maryianne, are dealing with all this.

"If someone makes a movie about this, I want Sum 41 to do the soundtrack," he says.

Someone have a bag of In-N-Out burgers for him when he redocks.