Peter_Puget Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 sad tale When I first heard about this girl I thought she must have fucked up parents..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 "some rough weather... with winds steady at 50-45 knots with higher gusts." Wow, rough. IMO it's not fucked up to let a 16 year old go for it. We all of us die, and this will certainly be sad as hell for the parents if she doesn't make it, but it ain't over till it's over, and they'll find that boat sooner or later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 Well we disagree on that but it is not that hey "let her go" do her thing. There must have been a great deal of parental enabling/pushing/prodding going on. If she's dead, she died for nothing....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 There must have been a great deal of parental enabling/pushing/prodding going on. HELL YA EXACTLY PETER BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT WITHOUT PARENTAL FORCING THIS GIRL WOULD ONLY WANT TO BE IN HER BEDROOM WITH HER TWILIGHT POSTER CHATTING ONLINE TO HER GOTH FRIENDS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 and thinking about her first year at university...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Who said she has good enough grades to go to university? Maybe she'd be working at WalMart and getting knocked up by her boyfriend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 (edited) Doesn't sound too bad either.....as reality but I doubt she's thinking about that if she has a Twilight poster... Edited June 10, 2010 by Peter_Puget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choada_Boy Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Speaking of Parental Prodding Could have been worse. I'd rather die at sea, alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 I think Twilight only works as birth control for boys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekend_Climberz Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 You all are just pissed she 16 and has a nicer boat than you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Well we disagree on that but it is not that hey "let her go" do her thing. There must have been a great deal of parental enabling/pushing/prodding going on. If she's dead, she died for nothing....... When my kids were growing up, I'd go watch them swim in the public pool with @ 300 other kids. I was always shocked that there would be 2 maybe 3 parents max, involved enough to be watching their kids. These parents were involved with their children. Regarding this wording of yours Peter: "If she's dead, she died for nothing.......", then if you died tomorrow, you who have lived a much longer life, would you say that you had also died for nothing? It strikes me as an incorrect and inaccurate thing to say about anyone passing if pass she did. It appears to me that it was about the process for these folks. I noticed that my kids were radically different from each other in temperament and aptitudes: and for myself, not knowing anyone involved in this story, I don't know enough to make a judgment here. ps, funny stuff there G-spotter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_Puget Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 Are you really serious Bill? I use to walk to the local High School pool with neighborhood kids all the time w/o parents....That said I spent lots of time with my parents....as a kid almost every weekend skiing with my family. Summers in the mountains at least for a month...... your example is just not reasonable. And why do you say it was about the process? It seems their explicit cometition with another teeneager implies that even more important than the process was being first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Everyone dies for nothing. If this happened when she was 18 instead of 16, would it be any less meaningless? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekend_Climberz Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 We don't die for nothing, we die so time can start over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 If she's dead, she died for nothing....... ....as do we all. Best to keep your parental eyes on your own kids, which you're probably royally fucking up in a bunch of your own special ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Conservatives: Born with the ever annoying fucking need to tell others what to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldiente Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 My armchair thinking says she lost all her systems during a knockdown. (com, autopilot etc) The boat is now "dark" and adrift with no way to speak to the outside word. Without access to her team ashore that is more our less guiding her across the world, she turns on the rescue beacons to call in the calvary. The boat is most likely afloat but the skipper is wrecked and doesn't feel up to the huge task of sailing the boat to safety without the assistance of electrical gadgets. (For our climbing friends this is like calling for a rescue on Hood because your iPhone stopped working and it is snowing hard. Of course now move Hood 1,000 miles offshore) That would be the best (and most likely) scenario. The worst case is that the boat was dismasted in a knock-down and is sinking and she's in a raft in cold water. Burly. Some really strong male sailors twice her age have died in similar circumstances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 speaking of non-sequitors, your title sir... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Conservatives: Expressing disapproval of shit that is absolutely none of their fucking business since God shat the first one out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 abel didn't know well enough to keep his fucking yapper shut when ole'caine was about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dberdinka Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 I'm sure by most measures she is a very skilled sailor with a level head but 16 yrs old is 16 yrs old. Much like the 13 yr old off to do the seven summits, there is the intractable reality of time such the the rush to be "the youngest person ever to" coorelates somewhat with "the least experienced person ever to". I hope she's ok. I can't imagine how helpless and awful her parents must feel. Certainly I can't imagine why you would ever allow someone so young to do something so committing and dangerous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Conservatives do give the rest of us ample opportunity to dispense many satisfying "Fuck Off"s in their direction. Good for the soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Although I'd be more circumspect about parental responsibility (depends on the kid's amount of solo experience and I hope for their own sake the parents weren't pushy), I tend to feel like PP, which doesn't happen too often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Great pussies think alike. Now, if that isn't an opening.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrox Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Conservatives: Born with the ever annoying fucking need to tell others what to do. That's rich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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