After sailing alone 12,000 miles, about halfway through her journey around the world, Thousand Oaks teen Abby Sunderland is home, ready to finish high school and learn how to drive.

She’ll probably also be babysitting. She has a new baby brother named after the captain who rescued her. Paul-Louis Sunderland, 8 pounds, 9 ounces, was born while Abby was giving a press conference after arriving back in California on June 29.

Paul-Louis is the eighth child of Marianne and Laurence Sunderland.

Abby’s brother Zac, the eldest child of the family, sailed around the world solo in 2009. He was 17 at the end of his trip and at the time was the youngest person to have circumnavigated the earth alone.

Abby tried, like her brother, to solo circumnavigate the globe, but her boat was tossed upside down by a rogue wave in the early morning hours of June 10 when she was sailing in the southern part of the Indian Ocean.

She was inside her 40-foot racing sailboat, Wild Eyes, and not on deck when it flipped.

She’d just been through a heavy storm—50-knot winds and 50- to 60-foot seas—that had appeared to calm down. She’d called her parents on a satellite phone, and they were helping her fix a water-soaked engine when the destructive wave hit, the boat turned upside down and Abby lost phone contact with her family.

When the boat corrected itself, she went out on deck and discovered her mast had broken off. The $200,000 yacht was dead in the water, and Abby was 200 miles from land.

She activated her satellite emergency tracking beacons and a rescue operation began.

The French fishing vessel Ile de la Reunion picked up Abby just after midnight on June 11. The fishing-boat captain, Paul Louis Le Moigne, fell into the dangerous water as he worked to rescue Abby. He, too, was rescued.

“Everyone on board has been really friendly. They have come a long way out of their way to help me, and I am so thankful that they did,” Abby blogged from the fishing boat.

Zac was there to meet his sister when she arrived on Reunion Island near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean on June 26. The two of them flew back to California and arrived June 29, in time to welcome Paul-Louis, the family’s newest sailor.