Solo sailor's roots debated - Aussie or Kiwi?

21 Apr 2010 05:43p.m.

Justin wrote:

Steve Old Seafarer or Steve Old Fart Ass who can lay claim to being on the bleachers all his simple life. So much easier to criticise when all you have achieved in your sour little life is always being 5 cents short of a dollar. What were you doing when you were 16? On second thoughts, dont answer. The fact you would attack a 16 year girl by calling her a liar and a cheat makes me think that your jealously is eating you up. NEWSFLASH... Get over yourself - Here's a dollar... go buy yourself a life xxx

21 Apr 2010 02:07p.m.

Jan wrote:

Her passport says she is Aussie so let her be! That is where she was born and obviously prefers to live.

21 Apr 2010 02:01p.m.

Old Seafarer wrote:

I'm a Kiwi, and a yachtie.
Why would "we" want to claim a liar and a cheat?
Has anyone bothered to check Ms Watson's unsubstantiable claims.
She cannot prove a RTW or a Circumnavigation, because there is none, there is only her highly dubious word!
The only thing remarkable about Ms Watson and her spokesman, Andrew Fraser (or should that be mouthpiece) is that together they have successfully deceived the public, the media, Kevin Rudd, the Federal Parliament and the NSW Premier's Dept.

Her "claimed" distance is only around 19,800 NM, considerably less than the minimum 21,600 required for an officially recognised RTW, and because she has not rounded an "Antipodal Point", she does NOT qualify for a Circumnavigation.
If Ms Watson wishes to claim any sort of accomplishment, the onus is squarely on her to prove it. An impossible task!

Check this Scuttlebutt thread, and in particular the attachments contained in a couple of the posts.(http://forum.sailingscuttlebutt.com/cgi-bin/gforum.cgi?post=9593;page=unread#unread)

Better still, run this past any of our Volvo Ocean Race navigators or Team NZ yachties resident in Auckland.
Regards
Steve Old

21 Apr 2010 12:16p.m.

Aussie Beach Bum wrote:

Look, because you Kiwi's are our closet dearest friends, and we LOVE YOU like a cold sore... We are willing to make a fair trade with you, yes thats right, a somewhat... peace offering. We'll have Jess and in return... we'll give you Shapelle Corby. But wait theres more... sign the dotted line now, and we'll give you the whole bloody family too! Just sign down here.... don't worry, just formalities lol ................................... PRINT NAME: Kiwi

21 Apr 2010 12:05p.m.

Sallina wrote:

Jess belongs to us!! But we're happy to let her visit you Kiwis from time to time. In fact, we'll even let you lay claim to the Pavlova to shut you up... and as for Russell Crow... he's well past his used by date so you can have that one back too. If worse comes to worse... you can have Jess every second weekends, Labour Day and maybe every other Christmas. Jess is a special human being and we should all (Both sides of the Tasman) be very proud of her... and she belongs to us LOL.

21 Apr 2010 12:06a.m.

Tim wrote:

Born to NZ parents in Australia, makes her a kiwi no question...

20 Apr 2010 08:00p.m.

Kiwiaussie wrote:

"Cromwell couldn't be further away from the treacherous Southern Ocean,..." err... Cromwell is in the middle of a little-ish island in the middle of the southern ocean...