[freemike]

I agree totally. You explained this better than I did. I repeat, there are things a 16 year old can do and then there are things no 16 year old should attempt unless they have to. Allowing a child (yes, a child!) to sail like this alone around the world trivializes the dangers and risks associated with such an effort.

Besides all of the natural hazards of sailing alone around the world, these are dangerous times. The ocean is open territory and there are predators out on those waters who would think nothing of torturing, raping and killing such a young girl! It boggles the mind.

[ml/nj]

Allowing a child (yes, a child!) to sail like this alone around the world trivializes the dangers and risks associated with such an effort.

Liberals are the ones who assume that age is a badge of something or other and that people not yet 18 or 21 must be considered incompetent. G-d obviously thought people in their teens were adults because He equipped them to be parents themselves. It is undoubtedly true, especially in our environment, that most kids couldn't undertake such a journey, but she has no obligation to worry about being or not being a role model to the masses of her age imprisoned by the UFT at massive expense to all of us.

ML/NJ