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.
Yes it was rushed for the record and the timing was atrocious.
I have no problem with her doing it in a well-planned fashion—she apparently was well prepared—but the ill conceived rush for a record takes this out of the “for the love of adventure” milieu into the “craven quest for publicity” milieu.
Bad timing, probably improper craft, etc....