14-year-old Laura Dekker's Circumnavigation a Joke.
"Ronald Raygun" wrote in message
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Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"Len" wrote in message
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What is funny about wanting to know how many meters of chain you've
put out?
What's funny about it is it should have been done PRIOR to starting off
on
a circumnavigation.
How do you know it wasn't marked prior? It could have been done
with something like cable ties, which subsequently come off through
wear and tear.
She writes at about a 4th-grade level.
She apparently thinks like a 4th-grader to boot.
Aren't you forgetting that she's Dutch, and that therefore English is a
foreign language to her, which she's still in the process of learning?
You'd sound like a 4th-grader too if you tried to to write in some
other language. That's if you even know one well enough to try.
You think she's doing her own translating? I doubt it. Somebody else is
doing that. And that somebody else is rendering her Dutch into English as
faithfully as they can. Believe me, her Dutch is also at a 4th-grade level.
Her thought process is immature beyond belief.
As for painting the anchor chain during the course of her so-called
circumnavigation, that is just so ludicrous. What's next? Hauling the boat
to slap on some bottom paint because it's two years old and needs it done?
Anybody who prepares so poorly for a circumnavigation has already proven she
doesn't have what it takes to accomplish anything more than practical
experience for maritime rescue groups.
Wilbur Hubbard
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