20/10/2026
The sailing stories that stay with me are not the record-breaking ones. They are the ones where everything went wrong and somebody kept going anyway.
A 24-year-old mess steward who could barely swim spent 133 days alone on an eight-foot raft in the Atlantic. A fisherman drifted 6,700 miles across the Pacific for 438 days. Four men lived four months in an air pocket inside their capsized trimaran. A couple sold their house, lost their boat to a s***m whale 300 miles from the Galápagos, and drifted 117 days while seven ships passed. Every one of them walked ashore, and the four things they all did are the reason. Twelve true survival stories in the comments 👇
