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Solo round-the-world sailor Cole Brauer:first two weeks I cried every single day

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17 pointsmmphosis18 comments

I've heard no one escapes a solo sail of longer than a week or two without going a little crazy. I wonder if Starlink (and having that connection to the rest of the world) changes that a little bit.

This article seems to be more concerned with the social crusade and PR effect of the trip rather than the actual voyage. I have nothing about this political goal per se — what's wrong with promoting a sport and creating a more accessible image for it? — but it's just not that interesting to read about.

By the way, if you're into round-the-world solo racing, this is your reminder that the Vendee Globe just started last, Sunday!

https://www.vendeeglobe.org/ and https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D2712YsGHIV9kjfOTbl... for the onboard videos.

This article is fluff. Teenage women have solo circumnavigated, such as:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tania_Aebi

Aebi wasn’t non-stop.

Jessica Watson's attempt (16yo) was non-stop, but fell just short of the required 21,600nm for an official record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Watson

This comment is fluff.

Other HN users have also linked to Wikipedia articles.

https://www.blueanarchy.org/holdfast/

Not quite circumnavigation, but this doc features a crew of anarchists that fix-up a vessel and sail to Haiti.

>Cole Brauer, the girl who “didn’t grow up in a yacht club”, has been fortunate to get financial backing from a sponsor who is more of a philanthropist, supporting her throughout and demanding little in return.

Why did you pick this particular quote to highlight?

Sounds like you want to make a point, but I'm not sure what it is.

Hopefully, everyone here understands that this sort of achievement — like any expedition — requires financial backing, and not something one can do on a whim.

The article is about how tough being a girl sailor is. It's undercut in the first paragraph with the inclusion of the generous benefactor.

How the hell is it undercut?

Money don't make circumnavigation easier, money makes it possible.

What's next, bitching about how F1 drivers don't buy their own cars, but are sponsored by e.g. Ferrari?

Also, your emphasis on girl shows what it's really about.

As if male sailors all craft their own boats from the trees they chopped with their bare hands, and girls have it easier by having a financial backer.

What a sad day to be on HackerNews (in other words, Saturday).

>Also, your emphasis on girl shows what it's really about.

Not my emphasis, it's from the article.

>Not my emphasis, it's from the article.

It's the emphasis of your comment. The article never stated that her accomplishments (or the difficulties she experienced) were undercut by having a financial backer. You said that.

Speaking of which: again, how exactly is it undercut?

The article called her a girl, I was quoting the article.

>Speaking of which: again, how exactly is it undercut?

Having someone pay for everything removes all barriers, including gender.

I see a lot of people in this thread who probably couldn't solo circumnavigate Long Island in a Catalina 30 that suddenly think they're entitled to criticize this accomplishment. Go try 130 days of 4 hours sleep a night through the roughest oceans on the planet in a tiny sailboat.

You're being way too generous assuming people who voice opinions here would have the slightest clue of what to do with a sailboat.

(This applies to me first and foremost)

This post has 14 comments and only two are negative. What are you talking about?

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