Coverage on TV

[The Adelaide Connection]

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Let's be realistic: sailing a yacht, alone, far from land, in stormy seas that we can't even imagine, for a period of many months, requires a level of maturity, knowledge, experience, dedication and skill that the vast majority of teenagers, even if they are "desperately craving fame and fortune", would be totally lacking. It's not something you do on a whim. It's very very hard!

This should be my last word on the subject, eh Mantis?

Except to say, as a matter of interest, there other circumnavigations happening right now: Abby Sunderland (USA), aged 16, Dilip Donde (India), Jeanne Socrates (South Africa) aged 60. Also Alessandro DiBenedetto in a 6.5m boat, and not forgetting Aussie, Jamie Dunross, aiming to become the first quadriplegic sailor to circumnavigate Australia. And yes, there'll probably be more, in time, but they'll be serious sailors, not Big Brother.

I think it is an amazing effort and I really take my hat off to her, but bloody hell are her parents irresponsible idiots.

When the authorities tried to stop her from being allowed to go and professionals in the field all strongly advised against it that should have been it, they should have shelved it till she was older.

Personally I think they have dodged a bullet, miraculously she made it. Had she not I think they should have both been locked up for serious neglect.

[Missing-Dog]

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The conspiracy theorist in me can't help thinking of Capricorn One. Fair play to Jessica.

[Curly5]

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I think it is an amazing effort and I really take my hat off to her, but bloody hell are her parents irresponsible idiots.

When the authorities tried to stop her from being allowed to go and professionals in the field all strongly advised against it that should have been it, they should have shelved it till she was older.

Personally I think they have dodged a bullet, miraculously she made it. Had she not I think they should have both been locked up for serious neglect.

What rot. The parents know their daughter better than any of the above "experts". That paternalistic interference, to me, would be an even better reason to go ahead. And what did they know anyway? It was no miracle, it was all meticulously planned over quite a long time. I reckon if she'd been a male, there wouldn't be all this angst.

[EasternWest]

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Will you still be saying that if attempts at things like this becomes the new Big Brother and scores of young teenagers desperately craving fame and fortune, with equally desperate, but less financially capable parents pushing them start resulting in catestrophic failures?

That just won't happen. Sailing solo around the world takes a fair bit of mental and physical effort. Achieving instant fame and stardom on Big Brother requires a willingness to get nude on an application video and an ability to lie around doing nothing.

Those two activites are the Mercury and Pluto of comparisons.

[LostDoggy]

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And yes what about the footy?

[LostDoggy]

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She didn't actually, officially sail around the world though did she...? :P