Laura Dekker, the 15-year-old Dutch girl who hopes to become the youngest person to sail single-handed round the globe has arrived at the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten, having completed the Atlantic crossing.

‘There were two or three moments that I thought; “OK, why the hell am I doing this?”, but they were not for very long,’ Yachting Monthly quoted her as saying.
‘If I feel really lonely I can always call my parents or something so then it’s over.’