“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 123
Abby Sunderland, all'anagrafe Abigail Jillian Sunderland , è una velista statunitense, che nel 2010 ha tentato un giro del mondo in barca in solitaria, aspirando a diventare la più giovane a completare l'impresa, senza però riuscirvi.
“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 123
“The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.”
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 144
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 27
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 193
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 176
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 97
“I saw the loose tiller jolt hard to the side as the boat began to spin.”
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 102
“When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.”
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 118
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 158
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 111
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 92
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 176-177
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 196
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 179
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 175
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 187
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 155
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 124
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 172
“Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.”
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 88
“The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!”
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p.. 153
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 48
“It was like a horrible movie clip, only worse, because I could feel it—not just see it.”
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 166
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 106
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 17
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 156
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 31
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 93
“Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.”
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 143
“Fifty feet of mast lay in the heaving water, downed lines and shrouds holding it there.”
Origine: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 156