If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

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

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

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

On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.

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

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.