[CaptainCrunch]

I respect that, but when a French Sailing boat going to their rescue gets swamped and a rescuer gets thrown overboard, and this is common conditions in the Indian Ocean at this time of year.

Then that tells any experienced sailor that its not a good place to be sailing through, especially on a solo voyage with no help anywhere near her.

It to me was an stupid risk and one thing when you talk to sailors, or pilots or even drivers is you don't take those kind of risks you avoid them.

This wasn't a microburst that simply showed up or a fast forming tropical storm. This was pretty standard conditions that are known about ahead of time.

Her dad should have looked at her plot, looked at the conditions throughout the plot and maybe done what a good dad does and say, not a good idea, lets try a different way.

And I can tell you this as well. If I was a dad, and my 16 year old daughter wanted to sail around the world, I would plot the course so that the nearest help wasn't basically two days away.