29-year-old Sonya Baumstein wants to become the first woman to cross the Pacific solo

#SonyaBaumstein #Pacific #SanFrancisco #Rowboat Sonya Baumstein is a 29-year-old athlete from Orlando, Florida, and she has drawn up plans to cross the Pacific solo in her custom designed row boat Icha – she has already embarked on her journey from Choshi – a port east of Tokyo. She is headed for San Francisco and hopes to finish the 6,000-mile (9,600-kilometer) journey by late September.
Once she does that, she would become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific. Till now, only three other rowboats have successfully made the journey and no woman has ever done the journey alone.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 7 June 2015.

She has experience of the high seas – she has already rowed the Atlantic to the Caribbean and is upbeat about this challenge.
Her rowboat, the "Icha," short for an Okinawan phrase meaning "once we meet we're family," is a lime-green, 23-foot (7-meter) -long vessel that weighs less than 660 pounds (300 kilograms). It has no motor or sail.
Weather permitting, she plans to row 14-16 hours a day, breaking her sleep to check her location.
She hopes to stay within the 100 kilometer (62 mile) -wide Kuroshio Current that arcs across the Pacific, at least for the first part of the journey.
She is not having a boat to follow her for support because of prohibitive cost but there would be a team who would provide support remotely from shore via satellite phone and GPS.
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