thebaldian: laura dekker
She was born on a boat in the port of New Zealand town Whangarei in 1995.
Her parents, Dutch father Dick Dekker and German mother Babs Múller, were by then seven years into a sailing trip.
Laura spent the first four years of her life at sea, until her parents split up. Her father then bought her a boat so she could learn to sail.
In 2009, while living with her father, she announced her intention to sail single-handedly around the world. The Dutch Government stepped in and prevented her from doing so.
Finally, legal struggles having been overcome, on the 21st of December, 2010, she set sail in her Hurley 800 named Guppy. It had a length of 27 ft and a beam of 9 ft.
She stopped at 26 different ports and the most frightening part of her voyage was caused by pirates in the Indian Ocean.
She finally finished her journey on the 21st of January, 2012. She was 16 at the time. The newspaper DutchNews came up with the following headline: “Laura Dekker: stubborn, self absorbed and a devil of a sailor”.
She is the youngest person to have ever sailed singlehandedly around the world.
Her parents, Dutch father Dick Dekker and German mother Babs Múller, were by then seven years into a sailing trip.
Laura spent the first four years of her life at sea, until her parents split up. Her father then bought her a boat so she could learn to sail.
In 2009, while living with her father, she announced her intention to sail single-handedly around the world. The Dutch Government stepped in and prevented her from doing so.
Finally, legal struggles having been overcome, on the 21st of December, 2010, she set sail in her Hurley 800 named Guppy. It had a length of 27 ft and a beam of 9 ft.
She stopped at 26 different ports and the most frightening part of her voyage was caused by pirates in the Indian Ocean.
She finally finished her journey on the 21st of January, 2012. She was 16 at the time. The newspaper DutchNews came up with the following headline: “Laura Dekker: stubborn, self absorbed and a devil of a sailor”.
She is the youngest person to have ever sailed singlehandedly around the world.
