Here's my take on that, you (the US Coast Guard) send them a warning, such as they did with Hugo, then you say Adios, fair winds, hope you have a nice trip.

If things go to sh!t and she capsizes and her daddy wants the USCG to fly 300 miles out into a storm to help...TFB. I think this is the general feeling with the solo round the world racing too, right?

Still you can never underestimate the stupidity of some people, didn't we just have a couple people killed in TS Danny? And the poor little girl (and her idiot dad) up on the cliff in Acadia Nat. Park in Maine when Hurricane Bill came by.

Gee, why weren't they warned?? Oh, that's right, they were, and they went ahead and did it anyway...brilliant.