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.
ABBY SUNDERLANDThe things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
More Abby Sunderland Quotes
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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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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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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 swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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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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Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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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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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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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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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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