Abby’s Wild Eyes
Teen’s round-the-world setback while living her dream
Sailor Abby Sunderland, 16, was rescued by the Australia Maritime Safety Authority from
the Indian Ocean after her yacht, Wild Eyes, was damaged by 30-foot waves, prompting her
to set off a distress signal. Abby was attempting to become the youngest person to sail
around the world alone without stopping. Her brother briefly held the record in 2009.
On May 15, 2010, Australian 16-year-old Jessica Watson claimed the record after
completing a 23,000-mile (37,000-kilometer) circumnavigation in 210 days.
 see also Sailing Section I have the mouth of a sailor. - Kristen Bell My drinking team has a sailing problem. - Unknown I have always had the sea as my playground. - Alexander D. Oen Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little. - Paul Carvel The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan It is sweet to view the sea when standing on the shore. - Archippus You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan They who dive in the sea of affliction, bring up rare pearls. - Charles H. Spurgeon I might survive a few days at sea. Probably not as long as Pi. - Suraj Sharma I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott The magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars. - Joanne Harris Live in the sunshine Swim in the sea Drink the wild air - Ralph Waldo Emerson Sharks are the lions of the sea. They glamorize the oceanic glory. - Munia Khan The landlocked sea is Greek or Roman, the boundless sea is Portuguese. - Fernando Pessoa If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. - Seneca The ship is safest when it is in port, but that's not what ships were built for. - Paulo Coelho She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end. - Natalia Marx My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea. - Henny Youngman Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. - Epictetus They are all discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Francis Bacon I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. - Mark Twain If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. - Thomas Aquinas Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sail. - John C Maxwell Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. - Kahlil Gibran I'll sail to Ka-Troo. And bring back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo. A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too. - Theodor Seuss Geisel Everything happens for a reason, you only need to keep on editing your attitude and gratitude so as to sail through. - Unknown A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way. - Unknown He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. - Henry David Thoreau The Duchess smashed the bottle against the bow and amid the applause of the crowd she slid on her greasy bottom into the sea. - Unknown Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port. - Zig Ziglar Sometimes you can get so busy trying to be everyone else's anchor that you don't even realize you are actually drowning. - Unknown My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. - William Shakespeare He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. - Leonardo da Vinci The trout enjoys the river, The whale enjoys the sea, And dogs love most an old lamp-post, But you're my cup of tea. - W H Auden Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. - William Taylor Mel Hardman (aka elvisweathercock) Animations
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