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.

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

The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.

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

When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.