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.

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

I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

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.

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

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

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