Dutch backpackers buy boat to escape from Covid-19 in Australia

[crankysailor]

Originally Posted by ahun

And these bloody Dutch just sail over everywhere while you clapping the keyboard.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/health...ight-1.4912361

Don't you need permission slips for that? 🤣

Damn.. I am not sure if as a parent I'd be relaxed at home waiting for my child to cross the north atlantic back to Europe..[emoji85] ahh those dutch...their version of stealing your dad's car keys for a joyride around the block on a Friday night is to slip out and go joy sailing over to England [emoji51]

[Mr B]

Originally Posted by crankysailor

Don't you need permission slips for that? 🤣

Damn.. I am not sure if as a parent I'd be relaxed at home waiting for my child to cross the north atlantic back to Europe..[emoji85] ahh those dutch...their version of stealing your dad's car keys for a joyride around the block on a Friday night is to slip out and go joy sailing over to England [emoji51]

Their backpacking in OZ, They crossed a few oceans to get here,
Where every thing that crawls, walks, swims, slithers, or flys is out to kill you,

Was it the Dutch explorers who discovered the west coast of OZ in the 1500 or 1600's And said it wasnt habitable and left again,

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by Mr B

Their backpacking in OZ, They crossed a few oceans to get here,
Where every thing that crawls, walks, swims, slithers, or flys is out to kill you,

Was it the Dutch explorers who discovered the west coast of OZ in the 1500 or 1600's And said it wasnt habitable and left again,

Mr B, you gotta keep up with the programme .
Cranky referenced the guys in arhun's link who are teenagers in the Caribbean!

[JPA Cate]

They did say they are teenagers. One wonders whose was the idea to trip home in that way, though.

But good on 'em, even if it were the parents who thought of it.

Ann

[CassidyNZ]

Reading between the lines in the report of the trip from Caribbean to Netherlands, seems to me the teenagers were crew to some experienced sailors who took the vessel across, maybe some were even just passengers.

Notes like “runs five educational voyages for about 150 students in all each year”
and “Crossing the Atlantic is nothing new for the Wylde Swan, which has made the trip about 20 times” sort of takes the gloss of the perception that the teenagers were in charge of the vessel. Almost certainly the vessel was managed by skilled sailors.

But then, maybe I just mis-read the article. Or perhaps I just expect too much from teenagers

This voyage doesn’t really compare to that proposed by the Dutchmen in Australia.