Career
In fact, she became the first woman to row any ocean. The journey took 363 days at sea from San Francisco to Australia. Sylvia born to a middle-class family, the daughter of a teacher and a secretary.
Sylvia Cook and John Fairfax started rowing for their cross-Pacific journey in San Francisco on 26 April 1971 in a specially designed tandem row boat called Britania World War II Britania II is a self-bailing, self uprighting vessel, designed by Uffa Fox.
Sylvia works for B&Q in Surrey, United Kingdom, where most of her co-workers had no idea she had rowed across the Pacific Ocean.
