Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
ABBY SUNDERLANDTerror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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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On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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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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The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.
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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 wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
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The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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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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When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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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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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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