Laura Dekker is off and running
Can’t say her website is too impressive and there is a certain strangeness to her campaign but best of luck anyway. It seems she left on Saturday on the solo part of her voyage. Dutch Daily News says:
The sail girl Laura Dekker has left from Portugal to the Canary Islands Saturday morning, according to her manager Peter Klarenbeek. The departure marks the official beginning of her solo sailing trip around the world. She made her final preparations In Portugal the last two weeks. On the Canary Islands she might wait until the end of the hurricane season before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
She left from a different port to that which the media were told so maybe she’s not in it for the publicity but simply for the journey.
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Maybe. But she was also avoiding Portuguese laws which would not have allowed a minor to set sail alone. Her supporters had better do their homework on this subject for all the places she will stop in during her voyage – it may turn out to be one of the more challenging obstacles for her venture.
The end of hurricane season isn’t until November. Why didn’t she just wait to set sail until then?
Seems she is just another Zac Sunderland. She wants to go to all the exotic ports of call on a long, expensive vacation, on someone else’s dime.
All the secrecy leads me to believe someone else is on that boat with her, as does some of the pictures she has posted.