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.

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.

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.

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

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

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.