So what's your experience with sending your child out onto the ocean alone for 8 months?
Do yourself a favor and read the comments on a forum dedicated to sailing by sailors with ocean experience...You just might find that you are totally ignorant about the dangers the wacko parents subjected their daughter to. And you also might find some interesting info on the weirdo dad that has conveniently been ignored by the MSM.....
My own experience, such as it is, is with the Sunderlands. I followed Zac for the final 2/3 of his voyage and then I've followed Abby since she left MDR. I've been impressed with the sort of repairs that Abby has been able to make as she went along. (Zac too.) They seem quite together to me. You're entitled to your opinion that they are some sort of wackos that must be protected from themselves by the Nanny State. But I hope you will allow me my own opinion that Abby and the Sunderlands should be at least as free as our Framers were.
ML/NJ