Sail-World.com : Solo sailor Laura Dekker denies support to the documentary about her
Solo sailor Laura Dekker denies support to the documentary about her
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'Laura in another arrival - a sailor not a media star'
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It's just another typically small shred of evidence to show how much Laura Dekker, the youngest person ever to sail solo around the world, is a true sailor, not a willing media star. After world-wide publicity attached to the documentary on her achievement which is just launched at a media festival in Austin, Texas, Laura has, with a one-liner in her blog, distanced herself from any involvement.
Maidentrip, the much anticipated documentary on her life and circumnavigation by young documentary film director Jillian Schlesinger, was premiered at the festival and is due to show round the world at selected cinemas.
While much of the documentary consists of shots that Laura took herself on a 'Handycam' during her voyage, she stated that she does not 'fully stand behind' the production, and 'won't say much about it'.
These days Laura, now 17, is living in Tutukaka, Northland, her long sailing legs well behind her. She is studying towards her divemaster's certificate and working for Dive Tutukaka.
Laura's circumnavigation was unlike any of her fellow teens to sailed - or tried to sail - around the world. While most were encouraged by their families, friends and the media, Laura's journey followed years of controversy, including a 10-month battle with the Dutch government, which believed the trip was unsafe for a teen, and tried to remove her from her father's custody.
After continual world-wide controversy, including a 'running away from home' episode, she set sail in August 2010 from the Netherlands in her 38-foot ketch, Guppy, sailed the Atlantic to the Caribbean, then the Pacific and Indian Oceans, crossed the Atlantic yet again and arrived in St Martin, in the Caribbean on January 21 2012, having started her official circumnavigation from that point.
Recently documentary director Jillian Schlesinger said she approached Dekker in 2009 with the idea of making a documentary about the trip and wanted the project to feel 'organic and unscripted'.
'I wanted to let her tell her own story, and give her a voice.
'I was really interested in finding out why, as a 14-year-old, she wanted to do this. She had no interest in being famous. She really just loves to sail.'
...and this is what Laura Dekker, born on her parents' sailing boat in New Zealand and having sailed half the world back to the Netherlands before she was six, has been saying since she first spoke of her dream of sailing around the world completely by herself. It's just that no-one believed her.
by Nancy Knudsen
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