I salute her courage. I hope she makes it.
I wouldn’t want to live in a homogenized safe adventureless world where kids can’t do anything remotely dangerous.
Oh come on. There isn’t anything equivalent about not being able to “do anything remotely dangerous” and sailing around the world alone at age 16.
Nor does the risk involved — to her or, inevitably, whomever may have to try to rescue her — serve any purpose larger than “adventure,” at best, and self-agrandizement, at worst.