Laura Dekker arrives Portugal, set to start solo circumnavigation

9:23 AM Sun 15 Aug 2010 GMT

'Laura Dekker - has arrived Portimao in Portugal' .

Dutch teenage sailor Laura Dekker arrived in Portugal Saturday after a ten-day test and repositioning leg with her father leading up to her beginning of her solo circumnavigation on her 11.5 metre (38ft) Jeanneau Gin Fizz ketch called Guppy. 'Laura arrived in the Portuguese port of Portimao in the early morning hours,' manager Peter Klarenbeek told reporters, adding the docking had been kept quiet at the 14-year-old's request. 'She has had so much media attention in the last year, and she decided she needed some time to be herself, in peace,' he said. Dekker set off from Den Osse in ...

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by Nancy Knudsen