“I got seasick for five days, but I was not giving up!”

Y INTEREST IN crossing an ocean was piqued in 2019, when I met a woman covering stories on plastic pollution for the Atlantic Rowing Race. Intrigued, I went to meet Rannoch Adventure boat builders, who were looking to get a team together for the Great Pacific Race 2021, a 2,700-mile row from San Francisco, California to Waikiki, Hawaii, to raise funds for the Seabin Project. One of the guys there, Angus, introduced me to his sister, Bella, and by