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The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.

Abby Sunderland

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.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Able Helping Place Remote
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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Brain Close Dying Fact Slowly
The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Building Stories Three
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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Boat Broke Broken Cape Drifting Horn Ocean
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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Eye Piece Pushing Running Struggled Wind
One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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Alone Around Dad Day One Year
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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Fall Ripped Sea Terror
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Birthday Eye Happening October Sixteenth
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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Feeling Home Indian Ocean Walking
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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Harder Panic Seriousness Soda Time Trying
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Game Mental Ocean Past Physical
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Break Course Records World Sail Unassisted Youngest
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
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Dangerous Most Sailor Solo
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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Amazing Dream Got Make Support Together World
I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Faith God Mile Resilient Twelve
It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don’t want to put them in a position to fail.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Decision Kids People Position Protected Today

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