My gripe is putting her life at risk by sending her to the southern ocean in winter. This is considered so dangerous that even fully crewed professional ocean racers won’t do it. And all so she would be 16 and break a record no authorizing organizations will recognize.
He’s a shameless media whore.
” My gripe is putting her life at risk by sending her to the southern ocean in winter. This is considered so dangerous that even fully crewed professional ocean racers won’t do it. And all so she would be 16 and break a record no authorizing organizations will recognize.
He’s a shameless media whore.”
Okay. I didn’t know about the southern ocean thing. My sailing was limited to the Channel Islands area of Ventura County.
Thanks for the info.
I’m agree with both of you! On the one hand, I think it’s essential for young people to take up challenges, and I think the culture of “safety-obsession” goes to insane lengths. I’ve had people upset at me because I let my little boys (8, 6, 4) play on the playground within sight of our house “by themselves.”
On the other hand, taking unnecessary risks in order to achieve an attention-getting “record,” and making a tv-show of your family in anticipation of someone’s perhaps being willing to pay for it, is unwise and bizarre.