[bvw]

They aren’t sailors

That's the ticket! You just know! You know all!

[Travis McGee]

If it was a discussion of a 16 year old doing a solo trek up Everest IN WINTER (just to win the "youngest ever" record before he aged out), I'd ask a bunch of pro mountain climbers their opinion, over a bunch of guys who have only seen a mountain on TV.

Especially if he did it in sneakers and a track suit, and his only emergency plan was to activate an EPIRB and have the world at large come rescue him in a wintertime blizzard at 23,000 feet.

But hey, that's just me.

You probably know a lot more about ocean sailing than I do.