Roz Savage finishes historic solo row across Pacific

After a month and a half at sea, British ocean rower and environmental campaigner Roz Savage made landfall Friday in Papua New Guinea, completing her three-stage trip and becoming the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean.

"It's still sinking in that I've actually done it," Savage, 42, said in an e-mail Friday.

She set off in her 23-foot boat from Tarawa in mid-April on the final leg of her Pacific voyage. In total, she spent about 250 days alone at sea, rowing more than 8,000 miles and taking an estimated 2.5 million oar strokes along the way. Savage traveled from San Francisco to Hawaii in 2008, then on to Tarawa in Kiribati last year, before finally arriving in Madang, Papua New Guinea.

From Cnet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20006852-93.html

Congratulation Roz for your Journey of rowing solo across the Pacific Ocean. You are Just Amazing and listen to all of Roz Rows the Pacific netcasts with leo and Dr. Kiki. You are Inspiration to us all and I wish you luck in all of your future endeavors. And I am looking forward in following you when you row the Indian Ocean. But for now you deserve some quality rest time since all the rowing last 46 days

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[Gersten8]

I had a sea once. Plane little bastard