Dutch teen sailor on her way to the Cape Verde Islands

7:28 PM Fri 12 Nov 2010 GMT

'More like a wandering dolphin than a galloping horse' .

With her boat Guppy 'crammed full of boxes of food and beverages', Laura Dekker, the 15-year-old Dutch/New Zealander sailor who wouldn't take no for and answer from the Dutch authorities, is on the next leg of her much anticipated circumnavigation - from the Canary Islands to the Cape Verde Island, at 800 nautical miles, about a week's sail. Like the migrating sailors she shares her cruising route with, she waited for almost three months in the Canary Islands for the hurricane season to finish in the Atlantic. (Most sailors go south from Europe to the Canaries before the winter gales ...

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by Nancy Knudsen