Laura Dekker

19th November 2011

Arrived in a stormy Port Elizabeth

Guppy and I are now in Port Elizabeth. The night before my arrival I suddenly fell sick and I threw up, probably because of something I […]
17th November 2011

Into the Agulhas current, Onto Port Elizabeth.

Back on Guppy after my excursion in the mountains, the meteo called for a good weather window on through the next coming days. It made me […]
16th November 2011

Escaped Durban for a little mountain trip

for new photos… I tried for hours to upload pictures to my website without success, the internet here being too slow but maybe it will work […]
14th November 2011

I can’t walk on land anymore!!

After 47 days sailing across the Indian Ocean Guppy and I are in Durban, South-Africa. On my last night at sea I met with intensifying ship […]
13th November 2011

Getting real close now

10-11-2011 Almost there… Just a little way still to go as each passing hour stretches longer. Just a mere 100 nautical miles left to sail out […]
12th November 2011

There were better days..

9-11-2011 Last night Guppy and I was thrown up and down. The wind picked up to 25 knots and blew from the side which would not […]
12th November 2011

Only 450nm to go and I’m not ready for land.

8-11-2011 Yesterday night my lovely southerly wind faded into an easterly wind that blew directly from astern and made Guppy roll back and forth with the […]
12th November 2011

Rules on open sea, sailboats go first..

7-11-2011 Finally a whole night of sleep! There was a nice southerly wind that pulled Guppy along at 6,5 knots. Even though the wind now weakened […]
11th November 2011

Flying and exploding peperpots

6-11-2011 My prediction that the wind would drop to almost nothing happened. And by midnight it was completely gone. I went to get a good rest […]