It was amazing to see all the support that he got from around the world and to see how everyone worked together to help make his dream reality. Watching him do this really made me believe that I could too.
ABBY SUNDERLANDAll the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.
More Abby Sunderland Quotes
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The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn’t likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
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I’m one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.
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I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.
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I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
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I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
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Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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I had begun to think that dreams are meant to be no more than dreams and that in reality dreams don’t come true. Then my brother (Zac) left on his trip.
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All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.
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Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
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It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don’t want to put them in a position to fail.
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