Her brother doesn’t hold the record. An Aussie girl just did it and there’s no way Abby would complete her trip in time.
This trip wasn’t going to qualify her any way. She had to stop in Cape Town.
With an acknowledged nod toward insensitivity, perhaps her death might have stopped others from doing something this stupid. I don’t think the govt. should take her away from her parents and I really did not want her to die. Let’s just hope her parents will realize that this was foolhardy at best. She had no business doing this stunt at her age. In fact, attempting to sail around the world is dangerous at any age. Nature has a way of showing people they have no business doing this type of things. She’s alive, thank God there was a ship nearby and thank God no one died during the rescue. Perhaps sponsors will come to their senses some day.........nah...
Which is all the MORE reason her parents should have insisted that she winter over in the So. African port -
....since she started out over two months later than first planned - thus posing great danger from storms in southern latitudes.