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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
I follow my own head. And if Im determined to do something, then Ill make sure that I make it happen.
TAKE A DEEP BREATH EVERY MORNING; SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEALTH. THE ALTERNATIVE IS UNBELIEVABLY TOUGH.
I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.
From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.
The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.
In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.
I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
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.
I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
You don't have to be someone special to achieve something amazing. You've just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.
Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.
It is with great pleasure that I see the political system of almost every power in Europe changing in our favor since the news of our late successes.
Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea
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.
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
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.
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 of the earth.
My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.
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.
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.
A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.
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.
So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.
I will never try to steer myself into a situation that I know might create a discussion after the race any protest immediately cuts down on my social hours after the race is over.
At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.