Abby and her winter rescue - why?

8:15 PM Sat 12 Jun 2010 GMT

'Abby Sunderland - all the courage in the world, but too late in the season' .

How and why Abby Sunderland ended up in the South Indian Ocean in winter, when the passing systems combine with warm tropical air moving south to make monster storms, is now being asked by experienced sailors round the world. However, especially after Jessica Watson's successful conclusion, skeptics who voiced their concerns up until now were few and far between, and slammed as pessimists. Sailing around the most southerly tip of Tasmania in mid winter is not something that most hardy sailors would voluntarily take on, but that was what she was planning to do. Sailing, even in more innocent voyages, ...

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