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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not in this year.  There was a student who went on a journey of being a sailor.  Then "wrote" a book about that experience, published.  Got in stanford.

Risky, but worked.  [/quote]

omg. sounds amazingly fascinating. like the kind of person you'd love to talk to.[/quote]

Keep in mind that it's difficult to manufacture this.  Minors can never being allowed to be a sailor, it means that the family has resource to make this happen, either they own a company or have connections that take the kid.  [/quote]

I saw this happen live on a Maine Windjammer cruise.  It was 2021(late Covid-era) and a divorced dad and his high school son were on our boat.   The dad obviously loved the boat.  He had been on it many years before as a cruise customer.

The captain was kind of shorthanded with crew so had distant family and friends helping out on our cruise.

The last day of the cruise, the Captain offered the kid passenger a crew job.  Kid and dad conferred, kid agreed within a few hours, and last we saw of them at debarking, they were off to find the kid some work pants before dad went home without the kid.

I told my kids...that kid just had a college essay topic fall into his lap, lol.

At my freshman's university, they recently had a talk from a woman who sailed around the world solo as a 16 year old.  And when she grew up...she became a Deloitte consultant.

https://michiganross.umich.edu/news/sailing-around-world-jessica-watson-handleman-lecture[/quote]

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