Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
ABBY SUNDERLANDThe open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
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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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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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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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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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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.
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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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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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