Laura Dekker  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Dekker

Laura Dekker (born 20 September 1995) is a Dutch sailor. In 2009, she said that she wanted to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe alone; however, the Dutch local authorities had abjections about Dekker’s plans because Laura ha had not reached majority of age. Finally, on 21 August 2010. Dekker successfully completed the solo circumnavigation in an 11.5-metre (38 ft) two-masted ketch, arriving in Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten, on 21 January 2012.

Early lifeDekker was born in the city of Whangarei, New Zealand during a seven-year sailing trip her parents were making. Her father, Dick Dekker, is Dutch and her mother, Babs Müller, is German. After her parents divorce in 2002, she started living with her father while her younger sister Kim went to live with her mother. Dekker sailed often with her father after the family's return to the Netherlands. She has owned several boats, all named Guppy. For her eighth birthday (fall 2003), she received the book Maiden Voyage, Tania Aebi’s memoir of her round-the-world sailing trip. In the summer of 2007, she took Guppy on a more ambitious 6-week sailing tour of the Wadden Sea with her dog Spot. She spent her entire 2008 summer vacation aboard it, cruising around the Netherlands.2009 trip to EnglandAs she started school in 2009, she began preparing herself and Guppy for open ocean sailing, with the goal of a round the world tour. In March, her father told her to learn about sailing the open sea by first sailing to England because the English Channel was notoriously difficult for sailboats.She left England on Monday May 11, reaching Rotterdam by the morning of the 12th and arriving home that evening.

Plans for a global circumnavigationIn August 2009, Dekker shared her plan for a two-year solo sailing voyage around the globe in the Algemeen Dagblad, a Dutch national newspaper. Her father supported her plans. She started from Portugal westwards, to cruise the Caribbean and then to go through Panama and past Indonesia. She then planned either to go past Somalia to the Mediterranean, or around Africa. Her plan was to make around 26 stops.

Pay attention to the verbs in blue.

2010–2011 solo circumnavigationDekker sailed from Den Osse , Netherlands, on 4 August 2010, headed for Portugal. Dekker and her father sailed to Portmão, arriving on 15 August. 2010–2012 Solo circumnavigation progress:

• Before you continue reading look for the places in yellow in a world map and mark them in this blank map.

• Departed Gibraltar on 21 August 2010.• Arrived at Lanzarote on 25 August.

Stayed in the Canary Islands for several weeks because of the Atlantic hurricane season.

• Departed Gran Canaria on 10 November for Cape Verde.• Commenced Atlantic crossing from Cape Verde to Sint Maarten—a distance

of 2,200 nautical miles (4,100 km; 2,500 mi)—on 2 December; finished when she reached Simpson Bay Lagoon on 19 December; having encountered calm weather on this leg of her journey, used the engine for two days in order to arrive on time.

• Departed Sint Maarten on 20 January; visited the islands of îles des Saintes, Dominica, Boaire and San Blas Islands, all located in the Caribbean.

• Flew home on 27 February. • Completed the passage of the Panama Canal on 11 April 2011; visited Pearl

Islands thereafter.• Crossed the Equator on the evening of 25 April; reached the Galápagos

Islands the following day.• Departed the Galápagos Islands on 7 May and arrived at Marquesa Islands

on 25 May.• Sailed from Marquesas Islands to Tahiti between 1 and 8 June.• Visited Moorea and Bora-Bora, and then to Vava’u, Tonga in 12 days, where

she arrived on 8 July.• Arrived 17 July 2011 at Suva, Fiji. • Sailed from Vanuatu on 8 August, heading for Darwin, Australia.• Departed Darwin on 25 September, heading west; published information

about this leg of her journey in her blog following about two weeks delay, because of security concerns regarding Indian Ocean pirates.

• Sailed to Durban, South Africa, arriving 12 November, after 47 days at sea non-stop.

• Arrived at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on 18 November.• Passed Cape Agulhas, South Africa, on 26 November, southernmost point

on the African continent, and southernmost point of her journey; sailed northwards thereafter on her journey from the Netherlands.