Rowing the Atlantic Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

Stuck in a corporate job rut and an unraveling marriage, Roz Savage realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn't going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure. She invested her life's savings in an ocean rowboat and became the first solo woman ever to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race.Flashing back to key moments from her life before rowing, she describes the bolt from the blue that first inspired her to row across oceans, and how this crazy idea evolved from a dream into a tendonitis-inducing reality. Savage discovers in the rough waters of the Atlantic the kind of happiness we all hope to find.

Roz Savage, a latecomer to the life of adventure, was previously a management consultant in a London office. In 2005, she competed in the 3,000-mile Atlantic Rowing Race, becoming the sixth woman to row solo across an ocean. In 2010, she became the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean, a distance of 8,000 miles.