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Originally Posted by sf11b_p (Post 334815)

So your against seventeen year olds serving in the military.

The US military is not an Army of One, we work as a "team".

This little girl thinks she is....

Big difference.

I was seventeen when I joined, but I had adult supervision, 24/7. Even while throwing hand grenades the DI was not more than an arm-length away.

Your analogy sucks.

Personally I don't care if this little girl trys again, sometimes ones life is spent just to set the "example" for others to learn from.....

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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant (Post 335030)

Co sign again
I find myself following you around and agreeing on everything :p

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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant (Post 335030)

Your analogy sucks.

Wow! You remind me of my first team sergeant! I always wanted to be like him when I grow up. I'm getting close! :lifter

As usual, on the money.

Glad the poor little rich kid made it, but agree on horsewhipping her parents.

WTF are they thinking?
What does she get next? A rocketship?

Supervision and lack of same are key issues in this story.

As I posted in the other thread

Is the issue "I want to sail around the world" or is it "I want to be the youngest girl to sail around the world"?

I didn't hear what happened to her boat. Are they towing it in or did they sink it?

Anyway her shot at "Youngest" is closing off pretty quick. She needs to get get repaired and back in the water fast. Otherwise she'll just be one of many who have sailed around the world.

I didn't hear what happened to her boat. Are they towing it in or did they sink it? [/QUOTE]

I was wondering the same thing the other night.

Ok, it will drift until it's close enough to some shore where someone can grab it. They will then secure it until daddy comes and pays big bucks to get it back. Maybe it has some type of transponder onboard that tells the owner where it is at any given moment. What would an insurance company say if you told them that you let your 16 year old daughter take your 40' custom built sloop for a jaunt through the Indian Ocean during the worst time of year and now it's lost at sea? Maybe it will come ashore in Somalia and be used by juvenile pirates.

Who knows...

After hearing about the reality show deal her parent have going on ,it sort of reminds me of Balloon boy .

This is not exactly a news article but it contains a lot of predictable stuff. Mostly that the family wants us taxpayers to pay for her rescue while they spend their money outfitting her with a new boat.

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Teen sailor's mom: 'We can't afford to pay back rescue costs'

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Abby Sunderland, a 16-year-old southern California girl who attempted to sail around the world but succeeded only in churning up controversy, is safely aboard a French rescue vessel at this hour, and is soon to be deposited on La Reunion Island, near Madagascar. Meanwhile, the preliminary bill for her rescue has come in, and it's ... oh, my ... an estimated $300,000. That'll happen when you have to charter a Qantas Airbus.

Sunderland's parents, however, say that they can't afford to repay the Australian government for rescuing their daughter, and anyway, shouldn't the Australian and U.S. governments get together and take care of that? Oh yeah, and Abby is already planning another round-the-world voyage. And there may be a TV reality show in the works.

"What price would you put on a child's life?" Maryanne Sunderland said yesterday when questioned about compensation.

"We're not wealthy people."

More from the Brisbane Courier Mail:

"The full cost of chartering an Airbus would be so high, you'd think they (Australian rescue authorities) would have to work with the US government for that.

It was also revealed yesterday the American Sailing Association refused to sponsor Ms Sunderland's solo circumnavigation bid, citing concerns about the timing of her trip.

So in essence, the Sunderlands are saying 'tough beans, Australian taxpayers.' What we did is not illegal, and if our daughter gets into trouble out there, it's up to you to subsidize the rescue.

Abby, meanwhile, is also lashing out a her critics on her blog:

Within a few minutes of being on board the fishing boat, I was already getting calls from the press. I don't know how they got the number but it seems everybody is eager to pounce on my story now that something bad has happened.

There are plenty of things people can think of to blame for my situation; my age, the time of year and many more. The truth is, I was in a storm and you don't sail through the Indian Ocean without getting in at least one storm. It wasn't the time of year it was just a Southern Ocean storm. Storms are part of the deal when you set out to sail around the world.

As for age, since when does age create gigantic waves and storms?

She's right. As we all know, storms are caused by Poseidon, the God of the Sea. And apparently he's pissed at her.

UPDATE: Excerpt from a new blog entry by Abby:

The captain is a big, friendly, bald guy with a big beard. He speaks English pretty well and he says, "Is no good to worry about the boat. Is just a boat, you is safe. You should not think about the past." Which is true, but its hard to keep my mind off everything that's happened.