When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.
ABBY SUNDERLANDBeing at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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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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The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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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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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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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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If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
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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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One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
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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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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn’t run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.
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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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Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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