Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What kind of parents would let their 16 year old daughter sail around the world alone?

Or for that matter how can it even be legal? All just to set a new world record for youngest girl to sail solo around the world.

In my opinion people have been held for child neglect for a lot less.

I hope they hold the parents responsible for the search and rescue cost!


Phil

Stupid ones


Mike

They are the kind of parents that would sacrafice there kids to get rich. bottom feeders IMO.

Have to agree with the above. ED

I'm glad they found her alive and well after I guess a pretty massive search and rescue. But seems to me like a very stupid stunt.


Phil

Of course, it could be said that they could live in a culture where this sort of thing is accepted, or it could be said that if they stopped her from doing it now, she would just do it eventually anyway, or it could be said that anyone who thinks that their sixteen-year-old isn't doing risky things, they are deluding themself, or you get the idea. (Hopefully it is apparent that I don't believe any of these things.)

at least she can't get pregnant or date a black guy while doing that.

Can't argue with the last statement at all..

At the same time, aren't we as parents supposed to encourage our children to excel? To do things bigger/better that we did? To 'find themselves' and/or go down the road in life wherever it takes them? My main point is they should have not allowed her to try this little stunt until she's 18.. Then, she's on her own..

Sorry, but have to respectfully disagree with all of you.....

Is your main reason for compalaining that she is 16? Many 16 year olds have served in combat, graduated college, and many other feats that "adults" fail to accomplish.

She's an experienced sailor, trained for this expedition, and logically planned the trip. She had good equipment, and the great common sense to call for help when her EQUIPMENT failed, not her nor her ability.

At 16 it's okay for her to drive a car across the country, but not a sailboat??? Don't get it....

I'm glad things worked out in her situation...sounds like quite a plucky girl!

Some of you obviously don't have 16 year old daughters at home.

Sometimes, I'd have preferred mine swam across.

Have you looked at photos of the Somali pirates lately?

The kind looking for publicity and recognition. The same kind that thought it was a good idea for Jessica to fly her plane (with an instructor even) back when, only to have that end result.

obviously they did a lot more than "let her go".....they bought her a boat, planned the logistics, handled the media, etc etc.


seems like an awfully risky stunt to let your daughter try....one with a real significant risk of death

I heard a story on the news this morning that the parents are evangelical Christians and believed that it was (1) she was prepared spiritually for the trip and, (2) God would look after her. I believe that they are nuts, but I�m glad she�s OK

Her 17 year-old bother completed the same solo sailing trip a year ago - I guess it was her turn.

To put your child's life behind fame and notoriety should be punishable by death.....

Child endangerment at the very least should be just for starters.

Tis a sick world we live in.

I'm thinking a kid that can sail a boat around the world solo will be better equiped for life then one whose parents strap a helmut on their head and insist they be escourted with armed guards wherever they go.

Sure, there are risks in adventure sports and when pushing the limits. But IMHO the risks of a life not lived are much greater.

I dunno.. Don't parents allow their 17 year olds to sign up for the military? Did parents allow 16 year old kids fight in the revolutionary and civil wars?

To be honest with you, I'd like my boys to meet her and shake her hand. Ma nature [bleep] her up, and if the stars had aligned, she's have made it all the way around.

I've been in 25ft seas btw.. She has to be one tough gal.

George Washington gladly took 16 year olds for the army, but no younger.

Depends on the 16 year old, but a lot of them are capable of a lot more than they are allowed to do in our nanny state. Heck, how dangerous is it to grow up on a working ranch up in the Rockies?

Back then 16 year olds actually worked and were worth something. Now most teens are playing XBox 360, playing online, or complaining about something. Not all, but a lot.