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

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

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.

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

The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.