Laura Dekker

6th August 2010

On route to Portugal

After all the fuss and attention of departure day, we are finally en route to Portugal. During this trip my father is with me so that […]
2nd August 2010

Final preperations

We are still on a roll checking out everything. And I have cleaned the whole boat ( tools still layed around everywhere from their last use […]
31st July 2010

Date of departure – 4th of August

It’s so great that I can oficially set sail and that will be on Wednesday, August 4 at 9:00 AM. Finally I sail away at sea, […]
29th July 2010

Wohoo! I’m allowed to set sail

Hello everybody, I have some great news, most of you will already have seen or read about it in the media. I got the official permission […]
25th July 2010

Upcoming court case

25 July 2010 For the past few days we were extremely busy working on the boat. It´snormal with boats that work will never be finished completely. […]
16th July 2010

Safety and Survival course

The solar-panel frame is mounted! It fits on “Guppy” really well and it makes for a very nice cockpit. Now we can finish installing the windvane. […]
11th July 2010

New Rigging

In the past days we were very busy replacing the rigging of the masts. I climbed up and down so often that now I know each […]
10th July 2010

Court transcripts untrue!

After waiting for half a year we finally received the transcripts from thehearings of October and December after our lawyer tried over and overagain to get […]
22nd June 2010

Fishing Nets & new props.

Today “Guppy” was lifted out of the water to replace the locked three blade propeller of the auxilliary engine with a two bladed one. And of […]