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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.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
After the week of stormy weather, she set sail under sunny skies, on a glassy sea with a big swell running.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
Fifty feet of mast lay in the heaving water, downed lines and shrouds holding it there.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
I saw the loose tiller jolt hard to the side as the boat began to spin.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
It was like a horrible movie clip, only worse, because I could feel it—not just see it.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
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.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
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.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)
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.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011)