I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.
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.
More Abby Sunderland Quotes
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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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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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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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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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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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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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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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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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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 open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
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When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.
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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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When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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