[jimbo123]

Flashback:

Zac Sunderland sailing speedily along as parents sink deeper into debt

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2009/04/zac-sunderland-sailing-speedily-along-as-parents-sink-further-into-debt.html

[Michael.SF.]

From your link I lifted this gem: But this has not been easy on Zac's parents. Laurence Sunderland, a shipwright whose business has suffered because of the recession, reluctantly conceded in an interview that the odyssey has cost about $140,000, and that the family is sinking hopelessly into debt and now must pay for Zac's passage through the Panama Canal.

So pops spend $140,000 to finance his kid. That does not sound like a "poor family" to me. It sounds like a family with misplaced priorities.

They may be broke, but that is because they are also stupid.

[Mr Rogers]

Lots of interesting comments at the link you posted. Thanks!

[La Enchiladita]

I must ask: What is it you have against the Sunderland family? How do you suggest they live their lives, and what gives YOU the right to do so?

I’m trying to stay out of the dust-up but you are over-reaching to be petty.

It happens that Zac accomplished something extraordinary. We used to admire derring-do. We used to celebrate it. Now, you want us to be a peanut gallery making snotty snipes at the few remaining adventurous spirits among us.

God help us.