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If anyone is the hero in this, it's dad Larry Sunderland.
In Response To: yes Rich, you might want to read this one too. NOT my hero ... ()
He rocks --what a top-notch marketer! He sure knows how to pimp his kids, all right! 
(Next time, though, he should choose a more realistic goal than having a teenage offspring attempt a winter crossing of the southern Indian ocean...)
Messages In This Thread
- Sunderland triggers EPIRBs in Southern Ocean
- Tough weatrher for anyone, let alone a kid alone.
- Why was she in the Roaring Forties in the Southern winter?
- perhaps so she could finish before she turned 17?
- ...I would lay that at her parents doorstep, that's where the buck will stop eventually.
- Because she is a hero.
- YES !!!!!!
- well, good sailors are 'risk adverse'
- "Risk averse" vs. "foolhardy"....
- Sorry, Rich, but I believe it's becoming increasingly apparent that this stunt was NOT about a girl "living her dream"
- Hey Rich ... is she still your hero ? You might read this and change your mind ...
- That's a really well-put article.
- Even better article by Spindler in Lat38 today...
- yes Rich, you might want to read this one too. NOT my hero ...
- If anyone is the hero in this, it's dad Larry Sunderland.
- yes Rich, you might want to read this one too. NOT my hero ...
- Even better article by Spindler in Lat38 today...
- That's a really well-put article.
- Hey Rich ... is she still your hero ? You might read this and change your mind ...
- YES !!!!!!
- perhaps so she could finish before she turned 17?
- Why was she in the Roaring Forties in the Southern winter?
- keeping a thought
- Rescue crew has made contact with her according to latest news
- Yep...she's ok
- I'm glad she's OK but why should taxpayers pay for this?
- I'll remember your opinion when I hear about you calling the coast guard ....
- I support anybody doing the good ol' fashioned American thing and going after their
- I'm not saying we shouldn't have public supported rescue
- I just don't see how anyone could justify sending a 16 year old out into the Southern Ocean in the winter.
- so in other words, any sailor that goes to sea...
- Ah but God has ordained her trip...but apparently He ain't gonna rescue her.
- I'll remember your opinion when I hear about you calling the coast guard ....
- I'm glad she's OK but why should taxpayers pay for this?
- Yep...she's ok
- Some well-put opinions on Sunderland in another forum
- Tough weatrher for anyone, let alone a kid alone.
