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

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, e….

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

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

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

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

I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face….

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

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….

There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has….

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 migh….

When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear..

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

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

I had begun to think that dreams are meant to be no more than dreams and that in reality dreams don't come true. Then my brother (Zac) left on his tr….

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

The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an ….

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 Hi….

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

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

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