When they wander 3000 kilometers from home you might have a point. Nevermind being in the ocean.

i think any parent who allows a sixteen year old to travel around the world alone, regardless of means of transportation, is a nut. and other sailors have said there is no way she gained enough experience at her age to handle any and every disaster that could befall her at sea. i don't get the need to tackle something like that at that age. and no, ten year olds shouldn't be driving atv's. now, she may be a dammed precocious 16 year old, good for her. still disagree with them letting her make the attempt.

Danger is relative to skill, ability, preparation, mental maturity. Another teenager just solo sailed the world a couple weeks ago. A teenager just climbed Everest.

I don't get the need to tackle that at any age!

and neither could sign a contract, lease, medical release etc. etc. But then again I saw a 3yr old smoking and a 6yr old drinking recently so I may be a bit old fashioned. :wf

The kid who climbed Everest wasnt alone and for the other parents who let their kid sail solo they are idiots too . You know I grew up on a farm and learned how to drive a tractor when I was 8 but I didnt do it alone , I learned how to ride a horse when I was 5 but I didnt do that alone either . I could run a drill press a lathe and form press when I was 12 but I didnt do that alone either. If their daughter would have died would you still think it was a great idea ? Usually I dont call people names on here but the masses are right , you are a nimrod.

I guess if daring to not share your opinion means someone is a nimrod, I'm far from the only one :p

It's interesting, the number of people here who are simply mentally incapable of disagreeing about subjects without changing the subject and hissing personal attacks at other posters. Geesh, you people must be deeply, lastingly unhappy with yourselves.

Its not that but you insist that yours is the only opinon that is the correct one. For the record Im very hoppy with myself :).

Well said. I wondered the same thing myself.

i've raised three kids who seem bright and intelligent enough. but i still cringed when two took a road trip to connecticut and back. can't imagine them going round the world like that--alone! that's the main thing...all alone in that huge expanse of water. that vastness would be enough to bring a seasoned sailor to their wits end. hell, i raised my kids with a lot of knowledge of history, including llewelyn the great who went to recapture his welsh lands at the age of thirteen-but even he had help.

No, I don't, actually.

Nice try, but your behaviour is not my fault :)

That's your mommy genes at full throttle ;) :tro:

LOL , you really are fabulous and yes you do.

First..I agree that she shouldn't be sailing around the world..Much like those nimrods who said their son was in that balloon, it's more about themselves than their child.

BUT....To come down on Riot for saying her opinion is the only correct one when this forum is littered with the exact same know it alls posting as god fearing, Obama bashing, kool aid (Fox, Beck, Rush,etc) drinking right wing lemmings is PKB.

And..I know you aren't one of the above, but..

Well I might be one but usually I keep it to myself I really do for the most refrain from name calling. Last night my inside voice came out , my bad .

;)

Reality TV, that's what it's about.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...BcBCM5v3s23ULK

Stories like this are exactly why God invented the process of "Natural Selection."

How is this different from those idiots who drive through an active railroad crossing signal?

there is tons of outrage against that, if you are a responsible person. ATV's kill so many kids under 18. I didnt have any outrage for Larson or Watson cause I've never heard of them until this issue. You really think its responsible to let a 16 year old sail around the world... and go into Southern Hemi waters where the most accomplished sailors have said that only an idiot sails through the southern hemi in the winter?

oh the irony. You and Booth Operator should make a baby. You are both the queens of Irony.