One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
ABBY SUNDERLANDOne day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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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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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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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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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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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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On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
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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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Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.
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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 am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
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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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