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One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.

Abby Sunderland

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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Eye June Ocean Strom Swept
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
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Birthday Eye Happening October Sixteenth
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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Faith God Mile Resilient Twelve
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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Begun Believe Brother Dream More
The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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Building Stories Three
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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Blowing Boat East Eye West Wild
The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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Capability Human Sea Solo Unassisted Youngest
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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Boat Broke Broken Cape Drifting Horn Ocean
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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Able Helping Place Remote
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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Creator Gear Ingenuity Jury Rigging Rip Sea
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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Marine Number Ocean Plate Right Weathered
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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Fall Ripped Sea Terror
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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Again Change Trying Waiting World
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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Amazing Dream Got Make Support Together World
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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Feeling Home Indian Ocean Walking
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Build Eye Feet High Speed Wall Water

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