[Rhodes22-list] Around the World Solo

[Bill Effros]

I don't know.

Solo sailing around the world is dumb no matter what your age.  Why do 
we encourage this kind of nonsense.

When you are cruising does everybody go to sleep at the same time, put 
the boat on auto-pilot, and dream they won't die while nobody is on watch?

Not on my boat!

This kid's parents set this up to make money.  There is no excuse for 
it, and no responsible parent would permit it, much less encourage it.

The kid doesn't know any better--can't blame him.

BTW -- whatever really happened to Steve Fossett?  (Another nut in whom 
we invested far too much treasure to glorify his ego.  If we made these 
people pay for their own rescues there would be a lot less of this stuff.)

Not grumpy this morning, I've just seen this story way too often, and 
somebody in the sailing community has got to start saying "this is NOT 
the thing to do, and NOT what we should encourage our children to do."  
It almost always ends badly.

Bill Effros

Brad Haslett wrote:
> Hank,
>
> Neat, seems like a sharp kid.  I hope he doesn't make the mistake that Tanya
> Abei did ("Maiden Voyage") and get lonely for some of the opposite sex.  It
> cost her a record because she had company for part of the sail.  Now what he
> does in port doesn't count.
>
> Brad
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Good Morning Fellow Rhodies,
>>
>> The Islander list clued me into a young man attempting to set the record
>> for
>> the youngest solo circumnavigation of the world.  See
>> http://www.zacsunderland.com/index.html.
>>
>> The neat thing to me is that he is doing it in an Islander 36, which is
>> what
>> I used to own.
>>
>> Hank
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