One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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.
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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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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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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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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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The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
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The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
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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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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.
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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.
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