“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
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Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.”
“Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!”
“The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas