14 year old sails across the Atlantic, BY HIMSELF

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Anyone else heard about this? Do you have some more detailed news? I think it's pretty amazing and I definitely didn't see enough coverage
 
Not that great. SOunds like he just played with his phone and laptop. I could do it, but I can't sail, and I don't have the navigational skills.
 
I could do it, but don't think I would, plus I am not 14 anymore :: )

But yeh you give me the right boat, I'd say 40ft + and a decent Nautical GPS system and I could do it, or at least try to do it haha.
 
no you don't. I sail a Camper Nicholson 39 by myself. You can raise all the sails by windlass, and navigate the whole thing through laptop, linked to your GPS, which runs the auto pilot. My little bro who is 15 and I sailed up from Virginia to Maine. And that boat is definatly ocean ready
 
oh, and it's sick that he did that. musta got boring tho, and it sucks when you have to sleep and have no one on watch. that's one of the good things of having 2+ people
 
I had a teacher last semester that sailed for 8 years all over the globe writing for some history magazine on a 20 foot sailboat that her and her husband built. It had no gps or anything, it's sick. I love it when people do stuff like this.
 
if that was sarcasm, skip the next paragraph.

wow, you must be fucking retarded. you do understand that the only propulsion he used the entire time was the wind - and was manning a 40 foot boat ON HIS OWN in the middle of the fucking atlantic. in other words, think you can do better? i dont think so, so take your head OUT of your ass, and give the damn kid some props.

anyway, i read about this earlier this week...what he did is so sick, and takes so much balls. I dont think i would have been able to take on such a feat when i was his age.

link to the news story
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2528781,00.html
 
No you definitly do not. There is a guy who sailed around the world SOLO in one a bit bigger.

You just need to know how to keep everything under control, and as much as I hate to say this, the automation of sailing today would make it SO fucking easy to do.

I have been sailing since I was mad small. granted I would def not attempt to sail that far solo because there are so many things that can go wrong, and then YES you do need a crew.

It can be done though, and it has been done. If you set the prper course you would really not even need to do all that much other then man the wheel until you arrive.

Its def doable.

I think that'd actually be pretty sick haha.

Those bigger boats you see with mad crew on them are racing boats. If your doing a race, like the figawi, or any of the others then hell yeh you need a crew.
 
hahah, woulda been hella funny if he was like, alrite, see you in antigua!! thats really sick though, mad props to that kid. sailing can be an amazing experience
 
^seriously. I love to sail but I've only sailed smaller boats myself. I have a friend who's family has a 65' racing yacht though, it's pretty sick.
 
^ yea no shit eh, just being in the middle of nowwhere and all you can see is water... man if i were that kid id bring a shit load of pot and just smoke chronic the whole time haha
 
so you are saying you couldn't do it. i mean, i could win the super bowl at 15 but i'm not 15 and i can't play football.
 
id rather sail boats that get you wet, tornados.

it isnt really that hard to do, all the sheets come back to the cockpit, even the haliards(sp) and all the reefing controls, it would have a auto pilot and if you have a good one they can adjust for wind as well.
 
No offense to you or anything, but I think the fact that you can navigate a boat from your laptop takes away from the experience completely and is demeaning to the ancient art of sailing. I sailed on a tall ship for 2 weeks this past summer, and everything we did , navigation and everything, was using old fashioned shit, no GPS or laptop. I just pissed me off when we would pull into port and see a bunch of rich faggots sitting there who just had to push a switch to do everything. You might as well buy a big ass motorboat or something. If you are going to go out and enjoy sailing at least enjoy it the way billions of people from now all the way back to like 4000years ago have, just the boat, the water, and their own hands.
 
theres one thing all of you guys forgot to mention HIS DAD WAS FOLLOWING IN A MOTORBOAT that kid aint got shit i mean all he did was do what his dad and his crew of sailing freaks told him to
 
I still use charts and can navigate completely with the compass, chart and slide rule, but I'm just saying you can get a laptop to navigate across the atlantic for you so you don't have to work hard. that was my point exactly. And I also sail lasers and 420's which don't have the electronics, so don't even worry about it. And it's a little more than flicking a switch.
 
haha, one of my friends and I always nosepress em. When they'res a little wind, both go and stand right on the bow, and hold on to the tiller extender, and see how far out of the water you can get the rudder without flipping it
 
yo i saw that on the news and i was like JEA. but then it said that his dad followed him like one kilometre behind so thats kinda stupid, but still skilled. i couldnt do it.
 
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