“I had always wanted to row - I love the water and being the engine for the boat. My Oxford days were all flat water racing but it was while a student here that I heard about ocean rowing. Oceans and rowing - a perfect combination, and so began the dream.” Image courtesy of Sarah Outen/ sarahouten.co.uk (click to enlarge).
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The Indian Ocean: a fickle, unpredictable beast. And yet this year Sarah Outen became the first woman to row across it from Australia to Mauritius single-handed, unsupported and at only 24 years old; the youngest. "Adventures make life real and exciting," Sarah told ExWeb about how the dream came to, "I had known since a youngster that I would live for adventures." Pretty much every spare minute of the last years had gone into the preparations. "When you have a dream you have to make it happen," Sarah said....
French preparing for partial Northwest Passage rows
