Rower Lia Ditton Rowed SF to Hawaii in 87 Days, Now Needs Coastside Room to Rent to Train for Japan to SF!

HOST WORLD CLASS ATHLETE. (Scroll for fabulous “Bigfoot” podcast with Lia)

Meet Lia Ditton.

“I am looking for a room in the HMB area for a minimum of a month while I find my feet, ideally 3 months or more. Budget $1,000-$1,500.

Being an athlete makes me a very easy-going house guest.

Kitchen-access is a must, stable WiFi also.

This would be while I train (gym and on-the-water rowing) and piece together the next stage of my record attempt to be the first person – not woman, to row from Japan to San Francisco, across the North Pacific ocean land-to-land.

I am designing and building a new boat, so this is an exciting time, as I hustle sponsors and make partnership connections!”

Contact Lia: [email protected]

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PODCAST.

Like a Bigfoot Podcast #287: Lia Ditton — 87 Days Alone Rowing the Pacific; S.F. to Hawaii

About Lia

I am a writer and professional adventurer passionate about sharing my experiences at sea, through writing, speaking engagements and by translating them into contemporary art installations.

Now 40, I have racked up more than 150,000 nautical miles of experience – the equivalent of 8 laps of the globe – and have competed at a high level in some of the world’s most challenging ocean races.

The youngest competitor and only woman to complete the OSTAR 2005 single-handed transatlantic race, my experience formed the basis of a 2006 installation, Absolute Solitude: One Woman, One Boat in which I lived on my boat next to the Tate Britain Gallery for 28 days – the same number of days as it took me to sail to the US.

After achieving 2nd place in France’s prestigious single-handed transatlantic race, Le Route du Rhum, I went on to captain the boat that starred in the film ‘Waterworld’ with Kevin Costner, taking 1st place in the 2007 Transpac Race (Mulithull Division) from LA to Hawaii.

An entry in the Woodvale Challenge tipped ‘The Toughest Rowing Race on Earth’ saw me swap sails for oars. From La Gomera in the Canary Islands, to Antigua in the Caribbean, I rowed 3,000 nautical miles to become the 53^rd woman to row the Atlantic Ocean and the 64^th woman ever to row any ocean.

Ocean Rower

In addition to rowing the Atlantic and being safety officer in 2014 for race a from Monterey to Hawaii, I have done significant rowing offshore on the west coast of the US including solo rowing expeditions from Portland, Oregon to San Francisco (2019), San Francisco to Los Angeles (2018), Around Farallon Islands and back into SF Bay (2018), rowing down to Half Moon Bay, Santa Cruz and Monterey. Rowing in San Francisco Bay in the past few years, I built up from 12 hrs of rowing per week to 50 hrs of rowing per week and now routinely row 80+ hours/week offshore! As my next training row, I am currently offshore rowing from San Francisco to Hawaii having started on June 17, 2020.