Laura Dekker and the Press - reader response

1:56 AM Sat 9 Apr 2011 GMT

'Guppy, the Juneau Gin Fizz ketch that Laura Dekker is sailing around the world' .

As regular readers of Sail-World Cruising will know, this is a news magazine, not a forum. However, we received such a response to my question about teen sailor Laura Dekker last week, that we have decided to print a cross-section of the replies, printing both positive and negative responses in the same proportion as the whole. About 80% of the comments were positive - or at least anti-media, and who at home with a fifteen-year-old finds them an easy proposition anyway? For the original story, click here ............................... Sender: TP Message: If Laura Dekker is irritated by the media, there is ...

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