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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
I would argue that no amount of preperation can truly prepare you for a challenge like that. If she wants to be the youngest to do it and has the training then all the power to her. Lots of growth can come from this experience, especially for a young'in like her that none of her peers will ever be able to comprehend or understand.
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I must be misunderstanding your argument here, because it sounds like you're saying that because it's an experience that you can never fully prepare for, there's no point in gaining as much experience, training, and preparation as necessary. Which makes more sense: that she did this expedition now because there was no way she could prepare further; or that she did this expedition now because she wanted to get her name in the record books?
Personally, I doubt that, should she survive, there will be that much positive growth. Perhaps she develops the feeling that she's invincible; perhaps she gets the impression that it's acceptable to put herself into dangerous situations and expect others to bail you out. Perhaps she becomes the sort of person who can't work in a team because she believes that she needs to do everything herself. Is she really going to be that better off than peers who hone their sailing skills in supervised, team-oriented environments?