Posted on 06/13/2010 7:22:19 PM PDT by LouieFisk
(Info derived from linked article)
Sunderland "reality" show was preplanned before Abby's misadventure:
Adventures in Sunderland (Reality TV Show) Distribution Rights: Magnetic Entertainment Exec Producer: Magnetic Entertainment
"A family oriented Adventure show, based on the Sunderland Family of Thousand Oaks, CA. We follow the family in their day-to-day lives as shipbuilder Laurence Sunderland and mother/teacher Marianne try to balance work and family."
http://www.magneticent.com/html/projects.htm
"Magnetic Entertainment" is the sponsor of the ill-fated voyage. (pdf list of sponsors)
http://abbysunderland.com/images/sponsors/abby_sponsorship.pdf
From another thread: “Mrs Sunderland, who is pregnant with the family’s eighth child...”
Maybe Mr. Sutherland ought to go on a solo sail around the world and give the Mrs. a rest.
That should be Mr Sunderland.
VERY interesting. Balloon boy II.
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>> So much for this not being a publicity stunt...
Funny... I don’t see any of yesterday’s Abby worshipers on THIS thread.
Let’s not diminish her skills or achievement, however. She was the youngest to round the Cape of Good Hope solo and got halfway around the world. Very impressive.
But the outcome was almost inevitable due to the timing (not only the winter aspect but the fact she only owned the boat for three months before her departure and two of those months were spent tricking it out with sponsorship logos and retrofitting the gear) and the parental pimping unforgivable.
They deserve as much attention as Octomom has garnered. Pretty much none. Let each of their other six kids try to beat each other to be the youngest. This bunch is about as loathsome as it comes.
Besides, the book has already been written. Lionheart, the Jesse Martin story.
“Funny... I don’t see any of yesterday’s Abby worshipers on THIS thread.”
Not even when they are getting pinged to show their faces...
I am so frosted about this. Sending your kid to her potential death is child abuse in the first degree. The kid failed, was behind schedule, put in for repairs and was then advised by her father to continue the march. Put those parents in a Dingy in the middle of the Southern Ocean in Winter. Let's see what hero's they are. That girl was facing weather worse that what crashed her for the next two months.
Honor the rescuers. The fishing boat crew that got her lost production, and the captain, almost his life. Fell into the water. I'm hot about this.
"Dad," I said, "I want to go to the moon."
... This is the third line of Chapter 1 of a book which I'm sure is familiar to many.
I’m amazed at the number of people that think we need to have children risk their lives to support their parents. It not the 1600’s, the 1500’s the 1700’s, are the 1800’s. We don’t have children doing slave labor anymore, third world countries do.
She didn't. She failed and good people bailed her butt out. She didn't defeat anything.
Read some of the worlds finest sailors at this site. Many rail against the hair-brained scheme.
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=102689&st=2600
ping!
You’ll love this!
>> I kind of irked some supporters but I was right.
I seriously irked some Abby supporters. The whole idea that if you don’t worship this young fool and her parents for what she did, then you aren’t really a conservative — that REALLY got under my skin!
FRegards
Well right now the effort is to save face with distractions and assclownery...
Some of them already have alot invested...
When I screw up I just admit it and move on...ego is a terrible thing to live on...
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