Her parents have 7 kids (with an 8th kid on the way) and are in massive debt. The recession has killed the father’s shipbuilding business.
This was an ill-advised and horribly-unprepared stunt for advertising sponsorship income.
Not so long ago, kids younger than this would leave the home to go in search of work to help support their family. It was considered an honorable thing to do.
Nowadays, a young, brave girl, secures a means of supporting her family so that they don’t become welfare recipients.
She makes a bold attempt to sail around the world, gets in trouble due to mother nature and all many here can say is that she and her family are stupid and that the family should lose their kid, and that the girl did it for “ego”, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Sigh...