Facts & Figures

Atlantic Row 2005:

  • Miles rowed: 2,935
  • Oarstrokes: about 1,000,000
  • Time alone at sea: 103 days, 5 hours, 43 minutes
  • Oars broken: 4
  • Wholebake bars consumed: 462
  • Average hours of rowing per day: 12
  • Pounds lost: 30
  • Days with no communication system: 24

 

San Francisco to Hawaii 2008:

  • Miles rowed: 2,324
  • Oarstrokes: about 1,000,000
  • Time alone at sea: 99 days, 8 hours, 55 minutes
  • Watermakers broken: 2
  • Larabars consumed: 336
  • Average hours of rowing per day: 11
  • Pounds lost: 25
  • Audiobooks “read”: 62

 

Hawaii to Kiribati 2009:

  • Miles traveled: 3,158
  • Oarstrokes: about 1,335,834
  • Time alone at sea: 104 days
  • Number of times across the Equator: 2
  • Larabars consumed: 297
  • Pounds lost: 30
  • Whale sharks: 1
  • Other sharks: dozens
  • Other whales: dozen or so, species unknown
  • Dolphins: dozens
  • Turtles: 3
  • Squid: 3, landed on deck, very messy

 

Kiribati to Papua New Guinea 2010:

  • Miles traveled: 2,248
  • Oarstrokes: about 460,000
  • Time alone at sea: 46 days
  • Average daily miles: 49 (compared with previous best ever daily mileage of 42)
  • Larabars consumed: 210
  • Pounds lost: sadly not enough to fit back into my jeans
  • Container ships sighted: too many for comfort, sometimes 4 or 5 at once

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About Roz Savage

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower and environmental campaigner. Coupled with her solo row across the Atlantic in 2005-6, she has rowed over 11,000 miles, taken 3.5 million oarstrokes, and spent cumulatively nearly a year of her life at sea in a 23-foot rowboat. Her personal creed of taking life 'one oarstroke at a time', and her promotion of the EcoHero movement, has inspired countless people around the world. In 2011 she will set out to complete the "Big Three" by rowing solo across the Indian Ocean.


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