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Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
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.
I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
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.
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.
If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
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. 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.
Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
