
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

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.

The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.

Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.

One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.