I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.

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

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

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

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

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

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.