But Mom, he got to sail around the world!

If I'm driving down the road, get a flat and killed by lightning while changing it does that mean I wasn't capable of making the trip?

We don't know what caused the SOS. We don't know if she's dead. So saying her youth played a role is premature.

 

I understand why everyone is screaming at the parents. They were idiots for letting their daughter go. But, why don't we wait to lay the blame with someone until the girl is actually FOUND? We're focusing more on the parents than the fact that a girl is lost and possibly alive on the seas! Like I said, the parents were wrong. However, let's wait to decide whose at fault until we know where the girl is.

 

Who's worse the parent who lets their kids go to the beach at age 18 for a week unsupervised and load up beer in the back of their graduation present car or the one who plants ideas of sailing around the world?

 

There really is no use trying to reason with anyone, CR.

 

BTW, Zac bought his boat Intrepid with his savings of $6500 he had earned from working on boats and buying, repairing and selling his boats.

So yes, Abby could have easily made the trip as an 18-year-old.

So much for living in "dreamland", eh?

 

If she had spend the last however many years working on boats and buying, repairing and selling boats, then it's entirely possible. She could also have been turning tricks, I suppose.

You win. The threat of her possibly maybe in a perfect world having the money to do this should have been enough for her father to allow her to do it. The hell with the odds of her ... you know ... dying.

 

Well, what *were* the odds of her dying? They seem high to me, but I don't know enough about sailing to say.

 

Yep. She could have just done it by herself: