Posted by Allan_Lang on February 13, 2012 at 20:41:43 user Allan_Lang.
In Reply to: Re: Reality and the Reader (more on Peter Duck etc) posted by Mike Dennis on February 12, 2012 at 22:57:31:
Of course John, and I have admiration for the Dutch teenager who has just returned (sorry her name escapes me), but myself at that age had none of that kind of courage or spirit of adventure so I couldn't picture myself doing such a thing, and so couldn't identify with the Swallows in WDMTGTS.
Laura Dekker. And she crossed the North Sea solo from from Maurik to Lowestoft at the age of 13. And real life English port authorities weren't as understanding as fictional Dutch ones
"They didn't like that much" - Laura Dekker
Oh, and in the North Sea, she had to go over the side to free her propeller from a fishing net which had jammed it.