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

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

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

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

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.

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

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.