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.
ABBY SUNDERLANDGoing up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
More Abby Sunderland Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby’s boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below.
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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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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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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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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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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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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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