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

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.

One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.

Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

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

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

The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.