For sale: Rowboat that carried sailor from S.F. to Hawaii for 86 days
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Ocean rower Lia Ditton, who rowed alone for 86 days from San Francisco to Hawaii last year, is selling her beloved boat. Would-be buyers should know it is a bit more than gently used.
The 21-foot craft is a decade old, made mainly of plywood and Kevlar and designed to carry a single intrepid rower. It has accumulated hundreds of days on the open ocean, carrying rowers on excursions ranging from the Canary Islands to Japan. At one point in 2016, having been abandoned at sea a year earlier during a hurricane, it washed up in Dublin, having floated unmanned for 92 days.