Parents are parents anymore. They are accomplices in their own children's stupidity. Just because she is a accomplished sailor does not mean she should try to do it around the world at 16...
her parents should be held accountable, even jailed for that shit. Similar shit like that occured in the past, some years ago in Utah, some stupid idiot let his 15yrd old girl fly a small airplane in a rainy, windy wheather, eventhough he was the co-pilot, she crashed the plane and they both died.