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"Wilbur Hubbard" skrev i melding
anews.com... wrote in message ... On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:28:40 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote: wrote in message ... On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:48:19 -0400, "mmc" wrote: I just checked out what boat her brother had sailed on his circumnavigation and it was an Islander 36 with a 13,600 lb displacement and Abby's "Wildeyes" displace 7,407 lbs. Even though it's 4 feet longer than Zac's, it is literally half the boat. I used to work with a guy that said he "planned for success". It took me a while to figure out that his planning was based on nothing ever going wrong. Poor, poor strategy. The hull did not fail. People have circumnavigated sucessfully in properly prepared and equipped Catalina 27's and Cal 33's, both of which were obviously intended as coastal cruisers. Not me brother. I've had my ass kicked thoroughly by mother ocean and it wasn't fun. The point is, just about any boat can be set up to complete a circumnavigation, and relatively safely. You can get your ass kicked out there no matter how big or heavy your boat is. Have you taken a good look at a mini-transat? Sunderland's boat was NOT the issue that caused her to fail. If she did everything exactly the same but in a Valiant 40, the results probably wouldn't have been much different. Lots of very bad decisions were made. The boat was not the weakest link in this adventure, and was not what failed. She deserves a lot of credit. She had the nads to get out there and give it her best. Not many 16 yos have sailed that far by themselves (I'm half a friggin century and haven't!) and it's not like she just quit. Guess we'll find out what happened when she gets home. That's like saying someone deserves a lot of credit for having nads because they walked across an 8 lane highway at night while blindfolded. Right you are. These liberal minded folks who think other people deserve a lot of credit for trying and FAILING have no idea of what it means to succeed at a task. The equate FAILURE with success and actually give kudos for failure (trying and failing). What's next? are they going to be giving kudos for people who don't even try and then fail? Probably. The way I see it, the poor girl never had a chance. Her so-called team did her a great disservice. The first indication was when she had to put into La Paz in order to ship greater electrical generating systems. Duh! Didn't anybody on her so-called team have half a brain and could sit down and figure amps required vs. amps available? Then there was the autopilot debacle. Double Duh! What morons allow a circumnavigation to be compromised because they rely TOTALLY on two electric autopilots? What were they thinking? Then they routed the poor girl into the roaring forties in the wintertime. One has to wonder if maybe mom and dad had a multi-million dollar life insurance policy on the girl and needed some income desperately. Excuse me, but wasn't this a circumnavigation? Why the need for speed in dangerous latitudes? Somebody is very confused. If this is what sailing has been reduced to in this day and age and people think the sailor deserves kudos then there is little or no hope for seamanship anymore. Wilbur Hubbard Most people who circumnavigate in a sailboat are interested in seeing the world. Abby's over-riding desire was to set a record. And not a record for doing something especially well. She wanted the record for simply doing something at a younger age. When someone is considered "good for their age", it's not always really intended as a compliment. This escapade is in the same category as "balloon boy". If she was truly interested in the circumnavigation itself, she would have waited until conditions and timing were far better. She couldn't wait, because then she wouldn't be the youngest. She was only interested in the money she would make and the attention. Agreed! And, look deeper. Who inculcated that warped, ego-centric attitude into her at such a tender age? Her parents, of course. Her parents are publicity whores living vicariously through their kids. I see them as "Little Miss America" parents. What little girl would even consider being Little Miss America on her own? What little girl would have as her heart's desire trying to set the record for youngest around on her own? Sadly, she is no sailor. She's a cheap, little, publicity puppy bred by her whore parents. Even had to have a pretend, open-forty, race boat of her own to complete the fairy tale. Wilbur Hubbard And you are a sick little pervert. I assume that your expertise in failures is based on your own life. |
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