Clouds grew out of nothing into giant thunderheads. The wind
went from calm to 40 knots and slammed head on into the 40-foot sailboat. Liz
Clark was alone in the middle of a 1,300-mile passage to Bora Bora from
Kiribati, a mere speck of tiny islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. She
hadn’t slept in almost three days. She had run out of food. The storm
threatened to snap her headstay and cause her mast to fall over, and she feared
the lightning would blow a hole in her boat. It was a low point in the 34-year-old
exploratory surfer’s nine-year quest for remote breaks.
“That was one of my most challenging times at sea,” says
Clark. “It really showed me what I'm capable of after a few days of no sleep.
It made me strong.”
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