A woman who gave up her husband, sports car and house for a small boat and a satellite phone in order to be able to fulfil her dream of rowing across the Atlantic has decided to embark on a similar adventure - but this time she’s taking on the Pacific.

Roz Savage, 39, from Leeds, England, was a keen rower in her days as a student at Oxford University.

However, she forged a successful career, got married and even had a red sports car before she decided she wanted to be remembered as "an adventurer and risk-taker" rather than "a woman leading a conventional, ordinary life always within the safe confines of normality".

Accordingly, she got divorced, sold her house and car, and became the only solo woman to enter the 3,000 mile 2005 Atlantic Rowing Race - which she completed in 103 days.

Ms Savage’s only contact with home during that time was with her mother, who she reached by satellite phone.

"She was my daughter and whatever she did, I would give her my whole-hearted support," the elder Ms Savage told the Yorkshire Evening Post.

"I did not like the idea of her rowing the Atlantic alone and many a time I thought Rosalind, what on earth gave you the idea that you could do this? But she was determined to do it."

Ms Savage will be hoping for more satellite phone updates from her daughter when she attempts to become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific - a feat for which she is now in training.

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