I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.
ABBY SUNDERLANDBeing at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
More Abby Sunderland Quotes
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The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
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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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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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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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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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The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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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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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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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
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