Bob Sihler wrote:Huh? Why would you plan to be in the middle of the ocean during the stormy season?
Maybe she needs to finish by a certain date to get the record? I don't know.
I know at 16 there's no way I could have done anything like what she's doing. Good on her.
We've only just been through the whole Jessica Watson thing here in Australia. Watson has been badly advised and managed by her team at home, but Jessica herself did awesomely well to do what she did. Good on her too. No amount of satnav, GPS and blogging can reduce the sheer terror of being a puny dot in the path of nature at its biggest and baddest.
Not directed at anyone here, but to all these people I see in the media saying "I wouldn't
let my child do that ...", I would say "Well, if you
did 'let' them do it,
could they do it?"
Or is it irrelevant spray, because your 'gifted' little darlings are stuck on X-Box and Twitter eating junk and couldn't sail across a lake to save their lives?
And you'll vote for a government that sends 19 year-olds off to get torn apart by roadside bombs in a foreign land, but won't let them buy a single beer in the 'Land of the Free'?
Or let 16 year-old strap themselves into a steel box and go hurtling down all kinds of roads with god-only-knows what drunk and drugged up strangers hurtling toward your little darlings at an impact speed of more than 100 mph, passing within a foot or so, again and again, hoping that all those strangers who you wouldn't trust with your dog can control a vehicle at high speed?
This is just my opinion and I'm not really interested in arguing about it. Even more so if Abby really is gone. I hope she is not.
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