title: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
author:  Abby Sunderland 
description: Abby Sunderland is the second of eight children in a family of sailors and adventurers. In 2007, at age 13, Abby discovered her dream of sailing solo around the world and was inspired by her brother Zac's successful circumnavigation in 2009. Her own journey, in 2010, ended in the Indian Ocean when a rogue wave rolled her sailboat, Wild Eyes . Abby now shares her story of tenacity and courage to audiences everywhere.
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  Abby, aged twelve
  “When I’m grown, I shall do what is expected of me as a
  Montgomery-Clark.”
   
  Flynn, aged thirteen
  “When I grow up I want to be a professional footballer. Or a stud.
  Probably both.”
   
   
   
  
   
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  "I'm going to make a prediction—it could go either way."
  Ron Atkinson, former England soccer player and manager
   
   
   
   
  “What are they doing, Muma?”
  Five-year-old Katy’s nose was pressed up against the kitchen
  window. Her attention firmly focused on the raucous crowd gathered on the
  plot of land Flynn Boyle had bought from Abby. The gorgeous flat land that
  ran between Abby’s Victorian house and the stream. The same land that
  would soon hold his no doubt monstrous house and block her view of the
  water.
  Abby took a deep breath. No one had put a gun to her head and told
  her to sell to the bad boy of European soccer. Nope. 