When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.
ABBY SUNDERLANDI 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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But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.
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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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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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Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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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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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 things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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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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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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 open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
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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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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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