The Coast Guard once intervened AT DOCKSIDE to stop a young woman from making a solo voyage around the world.She had no boating experience,the running lights were candles in coloured jars and she too had lots of rice ( mumbled something about a macrobiotic diet, in my opinion a mispelling of macroidiotic.) The boat was well ballasted though. She must have had close to 100 hardback books for recreational reading- not one by Conrad, Melville or Homer, let alone navigation.