Maidentrip
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Hello, hello.
Test.
Okay, so here we go.
All supplies are stocked.
Water.
Boxes of food.
More boxes of food, food,
and more food.
I just have to cast off
the moorings and then
I'm ready to go.
We'll see.
My name is Laura Dekker.
I have a dream to be the
youngest person ever to sail
around the world alone.
I was born on a boat
in New Zealand.
at sea and ever since,
all I've wanted is
to return to that life.
Okay now, this is just
This will be my bed.
You can't imagine it now,
but there I will be sleeping.
If you see it now you think
"Oh no, that will takes weeks."
But it's not so worse
as you see it.
Every day since February
we've been working on it.
In Holland, they tried
to stop her trip,
but there isn't any law
to stop this.
It's really weird, yeah.
strong, so it's not enough.
Okay.
"She is completely insane."
"If you want to do this,
go figure it out yourself."
So I just started out
by figuring out routes
looking at charts
what it would look like
and what I'd need for the boat.
I started to look for sponsors.
I just started explaining
to people who I was,
what I wanted to do,
what my dream was.
And they all responded
very positively.
I got things for my boat, like
charts and navigation systems.
When I wanted to arrange
my school,
the attendance officer sent
Child Protection after me
and all that.
against me and my parents.
And then the media got
all over it, and that was just
...not much fun.
And now here's
an interesting controversy.
A thirteen-year-old Dutch girl
wants to sail the world alone,
go from her own government.
Council for Child Protection's
so concerned about the dangers
of the marathon voyage,
it's asked a court
I just didn't know what
was going on at all.
The media came, and I was
famous in the whole of Holland.
But I never had wanted
to be famous
and it was also the worst
kind of being famous
that there can ever be.
The worst part was definitely
they wanted to pull me away
from my dad and put me in some
kind of home for crazy kids.
It was really nasty.
who say you're crazy,
but it's a dream.
A great, great dream.
I want to sail,
I want to go around the world.
I want to see all the places
and not always
the stupid same thing.
After one year of fighting
we were able to win
which was really nice.
With this decision,
the responsibility for Laura
is back where it belongs.
Namely, with the parents.
set out this morning
in a journey to become
around the world alone.
Dekker had to fight a 10 month
court battle to be allowed
to make that trip by herself.
I don't know,
it's just a mix of feelings
because I'm happy for her...
but also sad to see her leave.
The last view of Gibraltar.
See you in two years!
Really beautiful.
Okay.
It's pretty hard to film
and walk.
I don't usually fall this often.
If it stays like this,
I'll have no complaints.
Umm, yeah.
What you see here is a...
disaster.
This is ravioli.
And it came out of that.
I don't know exactly
what happened but...
all of the sudden it fell on me,
and now I am all ravioli-ed.
like soup or something.
at sea so far.
This will be the fourth night.
And there goes the sun.
Always extraordinary
how fast that goes.
The fourth day...
that's when I truly
realized that I was away,
that I was really doing
a world trip.
That was because I saw
the Canary Islands.
Because at home,
ever since I was very little
the Canary Islands were something for me
that was really far away,
something unreachable,
somewhere I would never get to.
So when I got there
I was really like,
"Whoa, sh*t.
I'm here."
I met some really cool
people, and we explored
Jesus.
I really feel like
a mountain goat.
that we were almost there.
And now...
we can hardly get any higher...
from the sea.
And the sea is there.
Others who have done it,
the world trip for the record...
like Jessica, from Australia
and Abby, from America.
They sail non-stop
around the world.
I don't want to do that
because you'd see
so little of the world.
other cultures.
That's one of the reasons
why I'm taking two years
to do my journey.
Well, I've set off.
First, I'm just going
to let my dad know
that I have indeed set off.
So we're going to call him now.
Hi.
I'm sailing away now.
The waves?
They weren't so bad.
I'm right by the beach
that's kind of a bay,
so it's not an issue.
Everything is off
in the kitchen, yes.
Yeah, I'll do that.
I will, bye.
Okay, well that's taken
care of...
Parents, "Did you think of this?
Did you think of that?
Be careful!"
But I will be careful.
Saying goodbye was difficult.
The Atlantic Ocean...
to cross.
All of my feelings were jumbled.
I enjoyed it immensely,
the sailing and everything
around me but...
on the other hand I missed
my father, I missed home.
I couldn't eat anything for two
days, just couldn't get it down.
I felt really very strange.
Dolphins.
Really so beautiful.
So beautiful, wow.
I hope they swim
along for a while.
A bit of company.
It's still about...
1780 miles or so to St. Maarten, I think.
And I've...
sailed something like 400
or 500 or so.
I'm hungry, but it's
nowhere near dinner time.
And to actually cook
a nice meal won't work.
as my food would be.
It's kind of difficult.
If you had way more arms,
then you could at least
hold onto the food.
I was pretty fed up
with it yesterday.
I could have just kicked
the waves to the moon.
If only that were possible.
on land again soon.
It's just like...
It would be nice to run
and to walk a bit.
So, here I am again,
I just had to do an update.
Now the wind is seriously
going away.
Damn.
And then there's
this f***ing swell...
Things are just really
hard for me right now.
Nobody said life was easy.
But that's a pretty
annoying fact.
I don't give up.
After everything I've done
for it,
all the years of dreaming
of this journey.
Okay, there's a f***ing lot
of rain coming at me now.
Holy sh*t, sh*t.
Woo-hoo.
A big wave just came over the
deck and that was so beautiful.
And now the wind
has picked up even more.
Really super awesome!
It's really cool to see
how the boat fights
its way through the waves.
Awesome, right?
Okay, so that was rain...
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