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Today the 14 year old Laura Dekker left her home harbor Brouwershaven (Zeeland) together with her father. At first they sail together to Portugal with Laura’s 11.5 meter sail yacht called Guppy. On their way to Portugal they will do several checks with the boat as well as with the equipment. From Portugal Laura will start her tour sailing around the world on her own. If everything went right she will be the youngest person who sailed around the world in history.

Even a lot of people are very septic about her plan’s I’m sure it’ll works proper. Laura was born on 20 September 1995 in New-Zeeland during a world sail trip of her parents. She was even born on the boat of her parents. Her whole life she was surrounded by water. And her home place, Brouwershaven, which is located in the Dutch province Zeeland is close to the north sea. Her plans to sail around the world causes a lot of problems in the past. For example the Dutch government revokes her parents the right of custody just to prevent Laura from doing that tour. After nearly one year her parents got back the right of custody. Now nothing can stops her on her way. Personally I wish her all the best and foremost good luck and nice weather conditions. And for all those of you how like to inform about Laura and her sail tour, just take a look at her website: http://www.lauradekker.nl.