When she first set sail on her trip, alot of information about her experience sailing was brought to light by her parents and man other experienced ship captains who knew her. She had been on boats all her life and began intense training and conditioning similar to survival courses by modern militaries.
This information is to be considered at face value and second hand information.
The only thing that the vast majority of uninformed individuals have been clammering about is the fact that it's a 16 year old girl doing this. Big deal. During the American Civil War towards the last year, 16-22 year old boys turned young men were promoted to many high ranking position on both sides and particularly in the Confederate Army the most. Up until the turn of the 20th Century, many boys were kicked off the farm at age 12 and told to make thier own way in life and the girls were married off at 14 to 16 years of age to reduce the amount of mouths to feed left on the farm since contraception devoces hadn't been invented or perfected.
Until the Great Depression struck America during the 1930's, most children of the poor and poverished families stopped all education around 10 years of age to work in the sweat shops of industry. The sudden loss of jobs nationwide created the first beginnings of child gangs running the streets in all major cities in America. Crime rates went up dramatically due to thousands of children with nothing to do in the cities.
In order to control the rising crime waves from the kids, Frankiln Roosevelt through the various federal agencies and state agencies began a largescale project to kill 3 birds with one stone in the 1930's. The first state and federal laws were passed to enforce education to all children from 1st to 8th grade and later to the 12 th grade and finally inclusion of kindergarten. This one thing dis three seperatr thing simultaneously but with the speed of any beuracracy.
1) Created jobs in construction for new schools
2) Created jobs with hiring teachers, administrators, and support staff
3) Brought the delinquent children into the schools for an education
For the last 70 plus years, we have enjoyed this public school system that has created this so called idea that children aren't responsible until 18 due to federal law stating this. Each child is different due to upbringing and personal experience. It's true that the vast majority of 16 year ols are immature. They don't have real responsibility.
A small percentage of 16 year olds due have an adult maturity to them from several different possibilites. Anything from loss of a parent early in thier life, the unplanned pregnancy and parenthood thrust quickly and responsibilty inherent, the low income family with a drop out rate and forced into work forceearly, the family that travels to other foreign countries and exposed to third world situations, and third world children inducted into militia groups and military service resulting in taking the lives of other people.
Once upon a time, a 16 year old boy or girl was considered an adult in every sense of the word.
