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.
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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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 day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
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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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I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.
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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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The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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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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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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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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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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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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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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