Laura Dekker departs secretly, gives Press the slip

8:01 PM Sat 28 Aug 2010 GMT

'Laura on her way to the Canaries, just dolphins for company' .

She gave them the slip. 14-year-old Laura Dekker has attracted so much publicity - almost all of it negative - since she expressed a desire more than a year ago to go sailing around the world solo, that she and her father slipped away from the Portuguese port of Portimao - her stated point of departure for her circumnavigation - without a word to anyone. The Portuguese and international press were still waiting and bitterly disappointed when they found she was gone. There had also been some mixed messages about whether the Portuguese nautical authorities would give immigration clearance to ...

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