Shark bait
Well, the Atlantic has been done...
She completed less than 200 miles of a 9600 km journey. Bravo to her for having the guts to try, but this is an epic fail. She didn’t think she would encounter any bad weather?
The solar panels are a cute touch.
Where are the owl and the pussycat?
I guess she never read “Unbroken”.
“...has ended her solo attempt because of expected bad weather.”
That was completely...unexepected!
That’s a pretty good effort for someone from San Fran.
Pray America is waking
This is really stupid. Was she trying to prove that girls can do anything?
hippie
Pretty disappointing to read some of the disparaging comments here, from some armchair quarterbacks who have probably never ventured anywhere in a small vessel by themselves. From the article:
“An update posted to Baumstein’s Facebook page Sunday said that Baumstein had made the decision to abandon this year’s attempt after “long conversations, loosing a drogue, a critical steering system failure, and battling headwinds and typhoons.”
“While we were only eight days in, the progress against wind and storms was slow and the next few weeks promised more storms and potentially even slower progress. Furthermore, she was receiving constant AIS alarms which given the weather conditions so far made it impossible to see the many vessels near her.On top of the data, Sonya and some team members felt that things weren’t going right. While we couldn’t put our finger on it, something felt wrong. Our expedition experience has taught us that when that feeling doesn’t go away, you pay attention. As we prepared to leave normal Coast Guard range, that feeling only got stronger. As a team, we felt that combined with incoming weather, loosing a piece of critical equipment with a a single backup, it would be irresponsible to continue. Perhaps more importantly, none of us could justify putting responder’s lives at risk by pushing further.”