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by ReligiousFlames 3315 days ago
Having great grandparents from Nantucket who's 7 family members died at sea while working as crab fishermen, it's seems reasonable this is a publicity stunt or he has absolutely no respect for how violent and unforgiving is the ocean.
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Somebody did it in a 5ft 4in boat, he's trying to break the record.
He's a professional sailor. He knows what he's doing.
So were many the hundreds of thousands of sailors whom have died at sea. The ocean doesn't care about experience or arrogance when a storm comes up and drowns this guy, or the great deal of money and risk to rescuers this clown imposes should he manage to somehow not die.
Well, he's hoping to cross in the smallest yacht yet, so that pretty much constitutes a stunt.