I also agree that the World Records-whatever-it-is should NOT include official records for the youngest person to circumnavigate solo. It's ridiculous. Are we going to end up with an 8-year-old going around the world on an Opti?
Precisely. Being the first to eat more than 100 hot dogs in x minutes and other freak records are isolated problems. However, fostering the competition for such claims poses an evolutionary threat to the species, for the popularization of those conducts would clearly have a negative effect on survival.
If sailing around the world alone at 13 had any potential to become a positive trait for future human survival, we would all support it.
