British adventurer Sarah Outen stranded in Pacific after boat hit during tropical storm

Ms Outen is currently in the middle of a round-the-world expedition scheduled
to last 850 days and involving 11 months alone at sea after setting off from
London on April 1 last year.

She had already kayaked across Europe and cycled across Eurasia before she set
off on the latest leg of her adventure from a port east of Tokyo on May 13
en route for Vancouver.

Since the storm hit, the adventurer, who became the first woman to row solo
across the Indian Ocean in 2009, has been confirmed as safe as she currently
awaits being rescued on board her boat.

A statement on her website said: “Sarah has been hit by the tropical storm,
Mawar, and her boat, Gulliver, has rolled on several occasions.

“The boat has been damaged, the extent of which is as yet unknown. The team
has however spoken to Sarah and she is safe and doing well.”

A spokesman for Japan Coast Guard also added; “She said she had safely
sheltered herself inside the vessel but could not come out due to heavy
weather.”

Shortly before the tropical storm hit, Ms Outen posted on her blog pictures of
herself swimming in calm ocean waters alongside her boat but also voiced her
concerns surrounding the pending weather conditions.

Describing how she had decided to call the storm Rosie, she wrote: “Waiting
for Rosie is a weird mix of adrenaline, calm and anticipated fear. […] By
lunchtime tomorrow we will have 45 knots with gusts of 55, later peaking at
55 knots with gusts of 60. There will be forty eight hours of that madness
before everything starts dropping, bit by bit.”

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