"I don't want any more 2am phone calls."

Those were the first words of relieved father Roger Watson upon clapping eyes on his daughter Jessica this morning after the 16-year-old sailor hit a 60,000 tonne coal tanker off the coast of Stradbroke Island in pitch darkness.

The Queensland schoolgirl had earlier called her parents, including mother Julie, with the news: "It's all right really, but I lost half my mast."

Jessica's damaged yacht, Ella's Pink Lady, motored into the Southport seaway on the Gold Coast this afternoon, 10 hours after the collision and less than 24 after she set sail on a 10-day solo trial before trying to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo and unassisted.