But Mom, he got to sail around the world!

[Inky_Wretch]

So isn't it possible this girl was more of an adult than most her age and capable of this trip? After all, mechanical and weather problems can endanger the most-experienced sailor.

I suppose the result would suggest she wasn't capable of the trip.

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.

 

[CR19]

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.

 

[cyclingwriter]

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?

 

[KYSportsWriter]

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.

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

 

[Flying Headbutt]

what if the girl isn't found? and even if she is, her parents are still idiots who are also bad parents.

 

[BTExpress]

Nothing was going to stop her, huh? She was just going to take all her savings from her Jamba Juice job, and get the boat and everything else for the year long trip. Right.

I swear, some people live in dreamland.

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?

 

[mb]

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 heck with the odds of her ... you know ... dying.

 

[RickStain]

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

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Magellan doesn't understand the fuss.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Magellan doesn't understand the fuss.

Sadly, I think Magellan might have taken more precautions.

 

[bumpy mcgee]

Magellan doesn't understand the fuss.

And he didn't make it either

Sadly, I think Magellan might have taken more precautions.

 

[mb]

Yep. She could have just done it by herself:

This trip has been a dream of mine since I was thirteen. We are getting very close to having everything fall into place to make it all happen, but as close as we are, we still don't have enough funding to buy the boat. Although I didn't start planning things very seriously until recently, preparations have been progressing amazingly fast.

It has been quite exciting since our first press release went out. Our first major sponsor, Shoe City , came on board immediately after the first press release. We are at the point where the next step is to buy the open 40 in the Bahamas that we have decided on. The problem with that is we cant buy the boat right now due to funding. If we don't find another major sponsor soon the whole trip could fall apart, which would be awful after all the hard work and time every one has put into it. Happily, Kauffman Sports Management Group has come on board to deal with any potential sponsors. Please contact Matt Tolnick at Kauffman Sports Management Group (310-456-5400) for more information.