US woman to row solo across the Pacific
Choshi (Japan): A daredevil American woman called Sonya Baumstein is in a set out to become the first woman in the world to row solo across the Pacific. To achieve the feat she has to cover a distance of 6000 miles through the ocean by traveling from the Japanese port of Choshi to the San Francisco in the USA.
Only three other rowboats are participating in the journey, and no woman has ever done it alone by rowing from Japan to the US. Sonya Baumstein, from Orlando, Florida, waited for weeks to...