Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
ABBY SUNDERLANDFewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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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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Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
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The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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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 terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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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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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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