Fifteen-year-old solo sailor on world cruise reaches Papeete

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4:54 AM Sat 11 Jun 2011 GMT

'Laura at the helm' .

Dutch 15-year-old solo sailor Laura Dekker has made her way through French Polynesia to arrive on 8th June to the capital Papeete, putting her about half way across her second and largest ocean, the Pacific. She has just arrived from a south-easterly sail with good trade winds behind her from the Marquesas, and all is going well, according to her blog. Laura has dreamed for a long time of becoming the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the world, overcoming many barriers before she was allowed to start her journey while still only 14. So far, since departing on Aug. 21, 2010, ...

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