[ZGuy]

You got it. These anti-Abby (and her parents) posts all deserve to have barf-alerts. It’s bizarre. The media will give a story an anti-conservative slant and everyone here says you can’t trust them. Then they report on this with a slant and everyone jumps on board and follows them hook, line and sinker.

Abby was an olympic level trained athlete safely pursuing something she was capable of. There was an accident, but getting through the accident safely proves that safety was a key component of the attempt also.

Go Abby!!!

[A CA Guy]

They have several kids, so if a few go to the ocean gods, so be it.

I'm sure you are with me though in wanting all their reality show pay up to the 500k or so for the rescue costs to be paid.
There is no reality show welfare yet that I know of.

[primeval patriot]

These anti-Abby (and her parents) posts all deserve to have barf-alerts. It’s bizarre. The media will give a story an anti-conservative slant and everyone here says you can’t trust them. Then they report on this with a slant and everyone jumps on board and follows them hook, line and sinker.

What's bizarre are the allegedly media savvy posters here who conflate adventure/self-sufficiency/conservatism with an obvious, money-grubbing publicity stunt.

Narcissism and exhibitionism aren't conservative values IMO.

This was a risky scheme for a lifetime meal ticket.

[Hot Tabasco]

Abby was an olympic level trained athlete

Now where did you come up with that??????

Olympic sailing is conducted on set courses in open hulled boats, ranging anywhere in size from approx. 12' to 26' with the Tornado catamaran probably being the longest. There is a big difference between course racing and offshore racing....

As for actual sailing experience, I've yet to find any on the internet other than her "Pimp Daddy" saying she has "thousands of miles of sailing experience".....

I was thinking I could find evidence of off shore racing experience in events such as the Rolex Cup or the Whitbread but there was none.....

You can support her all you want but the fact remains that this 16 year girl had no business setting sail at the time of the year she did and it was only because her Pimp Daddy was attempting to profit from her just as Balloon Boy's Pimp Daddy did..........