Laura Dekker is across the Atlantic

8:02 PM Sun 19 Dec 2010 GMT

'Laura Dekker has made it safely across the Atlantic, photo by Evert-Jan Daniels1' .

Three months after departing Europe Laura Dekker, 15-year-old Dutch cruising sailor, has arrived on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten after sailing the Atlantic in 17 days from the Cape Verde Islands in her Jeanneau Gin Fizz ketch, Guppy. She arrived after dark at the end of the 2200 nautical mile crossing, having experienced excellent winds during the last couple of days. Laura experienced every kind of wind in the crossing, from being almost becalmed to boisterous seas. When almost at the end of her voyage her steering vane broke off in the seas, and Laura was obliged to replace ...

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by Nancy Knudsen

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