Ok surprise, I am posting a news that I really like. haha.. I really wish I had her courage and capability, to go with the heart, and fulfill seemingly unattainable dreams. :)
Laura Dekker begins bid to become youngest person to sail world solo
Laura Dekker, 14, began her journey, a sea voyage that is expected to take the next two years, after setting sail in her 38-foot yacht Guppy.
"I can be sailing now, and that's great," she said.
"I am not really afraid. I am very happy."
Over 100 well wishers gathered at the dockside of the southern Dutch harbour of Den Osse to wave goodbye to Miss Dekker and her father.
Dick Dekker is accompanying his daughter to Portugal before she begins her solo voyage from there to the Canary Islands before a solo crossing of the Atlantic late this year.
Just last week, Miss Dekker won a bitter legal fight to overturn a child protection order that had placed her under the guardianship of social workers to stop her setting sail last year, aged just 13.
She has become a Dutch folk hero after rejecting, with parental support, claims by the child protection authorities that the long sea voyage would be too dangerous and damage her "emotional development".
The teenager has also shrugged off warnings from Nato commanders about piracy off the Horn of Africa and hoisted the black Jolly Roger of The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as she set sail.
Laura, who was born on a yacht off the coast of New Zealand as her parents sailed around the world, first came to the attention of the authorities after British social workers reported her for a solo voyage across the North Sea.
Asked what she would miss most on her trip, Miss Dekker replied: "My dog, Spot."
Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/sailing/7926471/Laura-Dekker-begins-bid-to-become-youngest-person-to-sail-world-solo.html*Reiko*
