Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor. — Abby Sunderland Can do Copy Share Image
One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone. — Abby Sunderland Around the world Copy Share Image
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted. — Abby Sunderland Around the world Copy Share Image
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear. — Abby Sunderland Astonished Copy Share Image
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable. — Abby Sunderland Heavy Copy Share Image
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea. — Abby Sunderland Fall Copy Share Image
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition. — Abby Sunderland Definitions Copy Share Image
The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability. — Abby Sunderland Capability Copy Share Image
I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't… — Abby Sunderland Able Copy Share Image
The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder… — Abby Sunderland Anxiety Copy Share Image
If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty… — Abby Sunderland Bigs Copy Share Image
But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward… — Abby Sunderland Blue Copy Share Image
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment. — Abby Sunderland Accomplishment Copy Share Image
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game. — Abby Sunderland Doe Copy Share Image
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying. — Abby Sunderland Brain Copy Share Image
In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful. — Abby Sunderland Awful Copy Share Image
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high. — Abby Sunderland Built Copy Share Image
The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings! — Abby Sunderland Amazing Copy Share Image
Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space. — Abby Sunderland Fewer Copy Share Image
I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again. — Abby Sunderland Around the world Copy Share Image
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening. — Abby Sunderland Birthday Copy Share Image
I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God. — Abby Sunderland Faith in god Copy Share Image
On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly… — Abby Sunderland Eye Copy Share Image
I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my… — Abby Sunderland Ability Copy Share Image
There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can… — Abby Sunderland Capes Copy Share Image
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… — Abby Sunderland Autopilot Copy Share Image
The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If… — Abby Sunderland Abby Copy Share Image
All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only… — Abby Sunderland Compassion Copy Share Image
It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their… — Abby Sunderland Age Copy Share Image
I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the… — Abby Sunderland Drifting Copy Share Image
I had begun to think that dreams are meant to be no more than dreams and that in reality dreams don't come… — Abby Sunderland Around the world Copy Share Image
