The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby’s boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below.
ABBY SUNDERLANDTerror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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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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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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The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
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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 terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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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’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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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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When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.
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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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When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
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