Way back in November, sailor-turned-ocean-rower Lia Ditton wrote about her 24-day, 700-nautical-mile row from Oregon to California right here on ‘Lectronic Latitude.
Lia Ditton has “sailed the equivalent of eight laps of the globe; crossed an ocean three times alone, and [is] the 53rd woman to row the Atlantic,” her website said. “Now 38, I have spent 73 days in a row naked, eaten over two years’ worth of freeze-dried food and sailed a boat over 40mph!”
Once Bay Area-based, Ditton has been training for more than three years to row from Japan to San Francisco — a distance of 5,500 nautical miles. If she succeeds, Ditton will become the first woman to accomplish the feat. She hopes to depart from Japan on her record-setting quest next month. Stay tuned for details.
Anyway, about a month ago, Ditton released a movie about her West Coast training row. For your Friday viewing pleasure, Latitude Nation:
The Pac Cup routinely caters to a wide range of sailing yachts with crews from diverse backgrounds — from tiny doublehanders to mega-yachts and from adventurous families to well-tuned racing syndicates.
