www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/10/abby-sunderland-sailor-yachtswoman-teen-sea-search
Hope she's found safe and well, brings it home how well Jessica Watson has done.
I don't think she will be as it was going to take someone 3 hours to get to her..
But we live in hope..
I have been following this as well. Totally sucks. The nearest boat is 40 hours away as well. Some pretty gnaraly conditions out there. Hopefully she pulls through.
Hang in there Abby.
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Abby's parents wrote: "Abby has all of the equipment on board to survive a crisis situation like this. She has a dry suit, survival suit, life raft, and ditch bag with emergency supplies. If she can keep warm and hang on, help will be there as soon as possible. Wild Eyes is designed for travel in the Southern Ocean and is equipped with 5 air-tight bulkheads to keep her buoyant in the event of major hull damage. It is built to Category 0 standards and is designed to self-right in the event of capsize."
All good, she has been found safe and well. The boat has been dismasted but the hull is intact and Abby is not injured. She will be picked up tomorrow and the boat scuttled.
Good to hear she is well!!
Problem i see is more children (cause thats what they are) will attempt this until one or more get killed. The obvious answer will be for authorities to bring in laws & regulations to stop this happening, more licensing, higher rego & insurances. End result it will cost me more money & restrict me from following my dreams....Seriously these children can only have so much experience, jw 5 years from age 11. It not much weekend & holidays i presume she went to school!!!! I've been sailing over 15years & wouldnt attempt a solo sail, solo sailing is living on luck, you can reduce risk but the rest is luck!!!
I don't know why people are so down on these kids following their dreams. More kids are killed by motorbikes, pushbikes, motor cars, sports of various kinds etc than sailing of any kind. If you stop kids from following their dreams in case something bad happens, they may as well sit at home and play their playstations and watch tv. But they will probabley die from obesity or heart disease. Rant over
I was wondering why she was heading into the southern ocean in winter? i thought the norm was to get into the SO in mid spring and go through over summer
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+1 stunt. Hope she gets back safe but the parents of all these kids need a slap on the back of the head. Somebody now has to risk THEIR life to go out and rescue her!
unfair comparison, if the same amount of children who play footy decided to solo nav around the world then we would have deaths daily!!!
Motorbikes are licensed & restricted in there use because of this very issue "they are dangerous". A 16 year old cant ride a motorbike on public property regardless of there dreams or experience.
if this is such a big dream for them why not wait a few years until they are 18 as this seems to be the age our society regards as adult. same dream, same person with no 15min.....which seems to be the driving force.
Remember we live in a community everything you do eventually affects me & vice versa. My freedom will be lost due to selfish acts of precious little darlings who are lauded by the masses. Do I need or want more restrictions for sailing? No I DON'T
as for fat kids playing playstation the government now want to tax fast food & restrict the sale of certain foods in school canteens(more losses for responsible people). but that's for another post
I find it interesting that people jump into the kids shouldn't do it debate - there have been quite a few "professional yachts men" the have been dismasted/holed/ds keeled/injured who have multiple million dollar budgets that haven't done half as well as the "kids" that have attempted this - case in point was the last solo round the world where a portion of the fleet didn't make it through the first 72 hours (from memory only 1/3 finished - one guy finished with out a keel!)
I beleive the reason she left during the wrong season was in order to beat Jessica's record - she had an initial crack at it but had issues that lead to a late departure.
Maybe I should have done double qoutation marks most of the kids that try this actually have more experiance and better boat handling skills than some of the so called pros.
If you say "NO!" to anything....determined kids will just borrow the boat/car
/bike/plane/etc and have a go anyway, i know i did and lived thru it. The
envelope has been pushed that far now and the limit is still not able to be
seen. Kids is kids. Could anyone really stop you........????. Some will dye trying
but that is a very small percentage of the kids in the world. Others will be
damaged, most will have an attempt, fail and coyly decide its not for them.
pweedas, it isn't a "rescue service", it's a fishing boat. It's only sheer luck they were anywhere near the area. I don't think they've trained for this sort of thing. Trouble finding a 12 year old? Why would they? There was no problem finding 13 year old Laura Drekker. It was only the government stepping in that stopped that one.