Hubo muchas opiniones que si está preparada, que si no.
En el siguiente artículo
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...019132,00.html
Algunos de los skippers más experimentados de Australia
dudan de su preparación y de su capacidad.
SOME of Australia's most experienced sailors have cast fresh doubts over Sunshine Coast teenager Jessica Watson's ability to complete her record-attempting journey around the globe.
Following the weekend release of damning findings from a
Maritime Safety Queensland investigation, Sydney-to-Hobart winning skipper Grant Wharington urged her to first set a more realistic goal.
Wharington, who has skippered Skandia to line honours in Australia's most prestigious yacht race - and been rescued himself - has been racing for more than 20 years, including a circumnavigation of the globe.
"I met Jessica about a year ago and she impressed me as a very capable young girl. But I actually suggested she should try a couple of shorter solo passages first to get a taste for what it's like, something like sailing from Mooloolaba to Tasmania and back, but she didn't want to listen," he said.
The Maritime Safety Queensland report listed serious deficiencies in Jessica's performance on her ill-fated September 9 voyage, which ended abruptly after a collision with a 63,000-tonne cargo ship in a major shipping channel off North Stradbroke Island.
The report found she had probably fallen asleep at the time, did not turn on a warning device that would have alerted her of a potential collision, had not developed a fatigue management plan, and could not produce a clear, plotted plan. Her journey was to have taken her to Sydney to start her attempt to become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
Wharington, whose Sydney-to-Hobart crew had to abandon ship during wild weather in 2004, said the findings did not look good.
"It probably sounds a bit harsh, but if what they are saying is true, these are schoolboy errors," he said.
También extraido de una entrevista con su padre
JESSICA Watson's father Roger says it would be worse to deny his daughter permission to sail solo around the world than to lose her in the attempt.
Conclusión:
1) La niña se niega por escuchar a gente experimentados en la materia
que además le recomendian probar con viajes más cortos.
2) No había preparado un plán de fatiga (y acabó contra un carguero).
Es decir no estaba preparada.
3) El padre prefiere tomar el riesgo de perder a su hija que decirle que no!
Cuando digo que los padres son unos
IRRESPONSABLES, peso mis palabras. Una cosa son sueños, otra es tomar riesgos totalmente inecesarios.