Ok then, that explains your post. The parents of this child would have needed to have invested hundreds of thousand of dollars in staging in this stunt. Many of the worlds best single handed sailors with decades of sailing experienced have died in an attempted solo circumnavigation. Most of the people who do this are fulfilling a lifelong dream, one they have worked for in terms of gaining years of sailing experience and in gathering the resources required to attempt it. Of course there have been some dare devils that have succeed without experience or proper equipment. But there have also been those who have survived a plunge from The Golden Gate Bridge too.
No doubt this is a brave little girl. However, she should not have been put in this situation and believe me, she was put their.
I think I agree with you.
Since you seem to be a person who allows your young child to take some uncommonly exciting ventures, I'll take your word for the notion that she was probably put up to it, although I'll still allow for the possibility that she put her dad up to it.
If I had the economic means and the persuasiveness to overcome my wife, I would take my brood to Hawaii and give them surfing/sailing/diving lessons. What a dream!