“WAIT!” A man hurried down the dock towards me and my boat. I looked around, but there was no one else on the dock. “You’re leaving too soon!” he said. I was 30 minutes from departing to row to the Farallon Islands. The man, who introduced himself as David Holscher fished out his phone and [...]
Tomorrow I will depart from the SFYC in Tiburon and row towards the SE Farallon Island... and back. This is not the world record attempt (Golden Gate Bridge > round the Farallons > back to the Golden Gate Bridge), which is pending approval from the Guinness World Record Association. But a warm-up. A 24-30 hour [...]
December 31st I received a message via my RowLiaRow FB page. Would you be interested in joining me as I transport scientists to/from the Farallons as part of the Farallon Patrol on 1/20? It’s the only way ‘civilians’ ever get to go ashore on the Farallons. I slept on it and replied yes. My hesitation? [...]
I am delighted to announce I will be working with Antrim Designs on the new boat for my World Record Attempt to be the first woman to row solo across the North Pacific Ocean. After my first solo sailing race across the Atlantic in a 35ft trimaran, I delivered an Antrim 40 trimaran 1,000 miles [...]
Click here to read Part 1. “I’m in” Captain Rod texted at 08:33AM that morning. After our aborted mission, we were on again for tomorrow! Captain Rod and I had worked together before, in the 2014 and 2016 edition of the Great Pacific Race (a rowboat race from Monterey to Hawaii). I was the Safety [...]
If everybody had an ocean Across the U. S. A. Then everybody'd be surfin' Like Californi-a You'd seem 'em wearing their baggies Huarachi sandals too A bushy bushy blonde hairdo Surfin' U. S. A. - The Beach Boys The first storm of the winter was coming. The wind was picking up. Late afternoon, Captain [...]
"The dream," wrote Carl Jung in The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1934) "is a small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul..." I relaunched my boat on February 7th! Look at my face above - I was jubilant that afternoon, to escape the shipyard and slide my boat back into the water. She had been [...]
Today I came across my Personal Philosophy, a multi-page document I filled out last year on the request of my sports psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais. For my Wiki page click here.
My Dear World blog was one of those blogs you publish, then instantly want to retract. It's a bitter pill to tell the world that something didn't work out, you felt like you failed and are struggling to continue. Even after the messages started flooding in, my finger itched to press delete. Support came at [...]
This isn’t an easy blog for me to write. I am sorry to say that the YO! Row came to an end on 31 December 2017. What hasn’t ended is my intent to row the North Pacific. I own the boat. The training will continue. When I was in the boatyard taking off the YO! [...]