[Razzz42]

You bring up minor details but from the link at the end of the article...”Ms Watson has reportedly sold her story to Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited for A$700,000 ($625,000).”

[Leisler]

"The morning, like the last 200, started off wet and windy....

[2aberro]

You bring up minor details but from the link at the end of the article...”Ms Watson has reportedly sold her story to Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited for A$700,000

I don't consider the accomplishments of rich kids news worthy. Anyone with mega bucks can do anything.

Show me a kid that delivered newspapers, saved his/her money for two years, bought a $1200 sailboat and sailed around the world w/o electronics.... THAT is news worthy.

I would guess mum and dad dropped in on her in their sea plane occasionally, and would have been there had the weather turned bad. We will never know.