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.
ABBY SUNDERLANDThe things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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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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There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, “Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right.”
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The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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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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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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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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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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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 swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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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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When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
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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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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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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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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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