Teen sailor Laura Dekker - sailing with Dad to the start line

1:38 AM Sun 1 Aug 2010 GMT

'Laura Dekker Photo/ Evert-Jan Daniels' .

Fourteen-year-old Dutch sailor Laura Dekker has announced she will sail away from the Netherlands on Wednesday, sailing with her father to Portugal, from where she will start her solo sail around the world. She has announced no date for her solo start, but it is expected to be within the next couple of weeks after she has completed some test sailing. Laura won a prolonged battle last Tuesday when a court released her from the guardianship of Dutch child protection agencies who had blocked her attempts to leave last year when she was still 13, and had applied to the ...

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