Sailing around the world

What do you all think of this young girl setting off around the world?

I wish her well but I am sure she has NO idea what she is in for.

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I believer that 6o minutes will do a story on her this evening .......Sunday in SA

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I would not let my child do such a trip at her age and all alone ...........they would surely die.....a soft target for Pirates too



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Yes it is a BIG and hard thing to do--although Jess Martin did it with great amount of trouble--she will have to very tough mentally and physically--I wonder how much sailing she has done around and about? Even coastal sailing can be quite a challenge.

I would find it hard to believe help is not too many miles away. I know if it was our kid we would be in a boat on the water somewhere someplace not too far away. An experienced family of sailors with quite a few contacts keeping in contact for sure.

She is a very spunky young lady nevertheless.

This trip will make good history, if it is successful. I think she is a gutsy girl, BUT, her parents should be charged. I have been a part time, deep water sailor for all my adult life, & actually spent 3 years sailing around the Pacific, so I have experienced a fair amount of cyclones & rough weather, but I did a delivery of a 37 foot yacht from Eden to Hobart earlier this year & got hit by weather & seas that I had never experienced before. The Horne, is potentially a lot more dangerous than anything I experienced. In my opinion, this is way beyond anything a nice little 15 year old should be allowed to attempt.

I really can't understand her parents--they must have bought the Yacht for her.

[size=3][/size][color=purple][/color]The ocean is very merciless and unforgiving, only ignorance and arrogance would think otherwise.



'WGM' I call it..........."world gone mad"...........I fear this voyage will not end well, colliding with a tank freighter surely was a warning ! There is a difference between courage and ignorant defiance.

GOD help her and her parents.

I would like to know if she signed an agreement to pay for her rescue - which she will need!

All adventurers should do so - after all what they are doing is not anything useful to anybody

so no country should bear the financial burden of rescue.

I spent 10 years in the Navy, the majority on Destroyers and have witnessed first hand how fast and ugly the ocean can change. On one occasion we were in company with HMAS Melbourne, The Aircraft Carrier, in such conditions, when it was disappearing with every wave. Sometimes it was on the crest of the wave, sometimes not.

I just hope this young girl doesn't encounter any cyclonic conditions like that because 'one' wave

will spin her around like a top let alone a couple of days of them. She must have grit.

God be with her.

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You can follow her from here



The Jessica Watson story





http://www.jessicawatson.com.au/





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YEs I have been following her --maybe down the track we will be able to track her--I know we could with the blokes that kayaked to NZ

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