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.

I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

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

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

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

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

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.