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.
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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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, “Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right.”
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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
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On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
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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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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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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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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.
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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 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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