One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone. ABBY SUNDERLAND AroundDadDayOneYear
In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful. ABBY SUNDERLAND AwfulDawnedLines MomentPerfectlySomething
If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn’t run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces. ABBY SUNDERLAND BlowingBoatEastEyeWest
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea. ABBY SUNDERLAND RippedTerror
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high. ABBY SUNDERLAND EyeFeetSpeed
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor. ABBY SUNDERLAND DangerousMostSailorSolo
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted. ABBY SUNDERLAND Records WorldUnassistedYoungest
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. ABBY SUNDERLAND AmazingGotMakeTogether
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying. ABBY SUNDERLAND DyingSlowly
Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space. ABBY SUNDERLAND CIrcumnavigatedGlobeSoloSuccessfully
