On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
ABBY SUNDERLANDI 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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One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
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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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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 terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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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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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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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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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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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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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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The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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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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