When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.
ABBY SUNDERLANDWild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
More Abby Sunderland Quotes
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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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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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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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Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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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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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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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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On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
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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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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’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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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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