Swingman wrote:
On 1/15/2010 11:26 AM, charlie wrote:
Swingman wrote:
On 1/15/2010 10:37 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:

Has anyone figured out what the differences in risks are between:
A) Walking home from work in a large/medium/small/rural city.
and
B) Circumnavigating the globe at age 16?

I don't have time for the search, but I hope someone does and gives
us the stats.

Don't know about that, but the insurance industry can damn sure give
you the stats for how lack of "experience" and mature "judgment"
justifies the increased cost of insuring 18-25 year old while
operating motor
vehicles.

I can't imagine this statistical fact somehow magically disappearing
at sea.

apples to grapefruit comparison. the two aren't comparable. the
distractions to driving and the quick changing road environment
simply aren't there in mid-ocean

Horse****! ... lack of experience and mature judgment are factors of
age, not type of activity.

then you prove your counter argument.

lack of experience for a 16 y.o. isn't this case, as it is in a new driver
at 16 y.o. she has been sailing for at least 10 years and has the
experience.

comparing her to a driver with 10 years of driving experience would be
comparable.