I can understand your opinion but the question still comes down to "Is sailing so dangerous that a 13 year old girl should not be allowed to follow her dream?" It's not really relevent, I guess, who stops her (or if they stop her).

What you are saying is it is a very hard thing these days to completely eliminate politics from any of the hard decisions of the day. Is that right? From fees (leevied against us by governments) to register the boat, to whether our pulling the boats up the dunes ruins the environment, all the way to whether this girl needs to be stopped from following her goal. It's all got some connection to Politics does it not?

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. - George Will
"It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so" -Ronald Reagan