The 5 scariest parts of rowing from San Francisco to Los Angeles
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Lia Ditton, who rows small boats across big oceans by herself, says it’s not a good idea to know the name of the freighters and tankers that pass in the night.
“You never want to be able to read the name of a ship,” she says. “It means you’re way too close. You have to assume that a big ship is not going to move out of the way for a rowboat. You have to assume it’s trying to kill you.”
Ditton, a 38-year-old motivational speaker from London, spent three weeks this summer rowing a 21-foot boat from San Francisco to Los Angeles, for reasons that make sense primarily to her.