O/T: Abby Sunderland

You do realize..for God's sake I hope you realize, that to "G o A r o u n d T h e W o r l d" it requires a voyage through several oceans.....

I can't teach you every thing....that should have "your" parents responsibility.

So a couple of years more mature/grown up does not make them wise.

LOL... Now what parents don't think that their child is the smartest, prettiest, bla bla. Her parent may be idiots compared to her. She the child may very well rule the roost as many teenagers do.

And how, exactly, are 40 foot waves a problem? And storms are a part of life at sea. So what?

Just make sure the jack lines are secured, and your harness line is attached.

Lew

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:56:10 -0500, "J. Clarke"

If it's no one's business, then what are you doing here talking about it?

Clarke, you're quite the hypocritical asshole, aren't you.

The subject is that some how "more experience" will allow people to deal with breaking both arms in the middle of the ocean. If you think that please explain how someone "older with more experience" would deal with it.

Do you have employees in their forties? Do they always make their own decisions without any of your input? Did you "ever" veto their decisions? Why?

Doesn't matter how old you are there's always somebody with more "life experience". If you defer all your decisions until you are the one who has the most life experience then you don't do _anything_.

Answer this--if you child enlisted in the Marines would you be having this kind of tantrum over it?

And yet you're raising this huge hue and cry over it.

So what is the problem then?

I see. So how long should a 16 year old be allowed to sail? Minutes? Hours? Days?

I see the point just fine. The point is that you're a busybody who wants to tell complete strangers how to live their lives.

Which is small consolation to the dead.

And yet hundreds of people have done it and all them spent significant portions of their voyages not paying attention to anything.

So how old should one be before being allowed to "walk alone in a seedy part of town"? And would it make a difference if they were boys instead of girls? And how would being 18 make them safer?

============================ You may have quite a wait in parts of the South Pacific where if you are lucky, you may get a scheduled air line fly over once a day, and sattelite coverage is spotty.

Prudent seamanship beats technology every time out of the box.

Lew

No, it doesn't. You don't even know what these girls are planning, do you? This isn't going to be one of those deals where they sail to some place and hang out for a while and sail somewhere else and hang out for a while. They're both hitting the Antarctic Ocean (also called the "Southern Ocean" and several other names) as fast as they can, then staying there for the major part of their voyage, then returning home. Jessica Watson has it easy--she starts there and finishes there. Abby Sunderland has to take a long run down the Pacific first, then back north on the return, so her route is longer. But both are going to be way the Hell out in the middle of an empty ocean for almost their entire voyages.

You would know this if you had actually LEARNED SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT THEY WERE PLANNING instead of starting in right away with the ignorant criticism.

You don't have anything to teach a retarded bullfrog.

So how old in your expert opinion does one have to be in order to be "wise"? And when are you going to hit that age?

But not yours of course.

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Lew

What is your point? All the seamanship in the world doesn't help if today is the day that the sea has decided to kill your ship. And there is no ship that the sea cannot kill when it is in the mood. And it doesn't matter if you have a sixteen year old girl at the helm or a 40 year veteran Navy captain.

The SARSAT satellites are in polar orbit--their coverage is not "spotty".

Yawn,,,,,

That is all you have to do??? Just make sure the jack lines are secured and your harness line is attached?

That simple statement will cover every possibly thing that could or has ever happed gone wrong while in high seas?

That sound a bit naive doesn't it?

Do you have any friends in school that might be able to explain this in words you may understand?

I pity your kids.

Apparently you don't have kids...

================================ Actually it is about as basic as remembering to tie your shoes and making sure your pants are pulled up.

If you don't remain secured to the boat, you probably won't have a chance to do anything else.

Lew

For give him, he just needs attention, something that he probably missed out on in his childhood. He probably cannot help it.

There is no AAA roadside service at sea.

If you expect others to save your ass with a SAR mission, you may/will have a long wait.

It's a big ocean out there.

Prudent seamanship is your best chance of not needing outside assistance.

Lew

What you need to understand is that you can't protect your kids from everthing forever. A time comes when you have to let them start taking chances. You don't seem to think that 16 is old enough. The Sunderlands, who know a mighty shitload more about teenaged circumnavigation than you are ever going to know, disagree with you.