Roz Savage (pictured above) is rowing a high tech row boat across the Pacific — San Francisco to
Australia — solo.  Her floating shack is stuffed with expensive gear.

“I will be taking about $80,000 of electronic equipment with me, so that I can send back video blogs, podcasts, data, photos and text blogs to my website.”

With all this sea-hardened equipment she will be blogging and podcasting from a row boat in the middle of the Pacific.

Her equipment list includes:

Laptops:
Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y5 running Windows XP (primary laptop)
MacBook (2 GHz Intel Core Duo, running OS X v10.4.10, also running
Windows XP in Bootcamp. Secondary laptop, and for editing video using
iMovie)

Communications while at sea:
Iridium 9505a (primary satellite phone, for voice and data calls)
Iridium 9500 (secondary satellite phone, in case primary fails)
External antenna, with patch antenna and handheld antenna as spares

And for communications when I get closer to land:
Samsung SGH T209 mobile phone
HP iPaq 6515 mobile phone with GPS, running Pocket PC 2003

Music:
iPod x 3 (iPod Photo 60GB, iPod Video 60GB, red iPod Nano 8GB)
Sony CDX–HS70MW CD/MP3 splashproof player
iPod interface and remote control
Speakers x 4 (by West Marine - 2 in cockpit, 2 in cabin)

Stills cameras:
Pentax Optio WP waterproof camera x 2
Canon D350 digital SLR in waterproof housing, programmed to take a
photo every 48 minutes, or when the boat rolls to more than 40 degrees.
Also has a remote button for ad hoc shots

Video cameras:
Video camera in waterproof housing in the cockpit
Eyeball video camera on long flexible lead in the cabin
Sanyo Xacti HDMI handheld camera

Data-gathering:
OmegaWave Sport unit for daily assessment of physical recovery/exhaustion
Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station recording data every 15 minutes

Card readers:
Microtech USB CameraMate card reader
SanDisk Micromate card reader

And the essential stuff:

Chartplotter (Simrad CP31)
Instruments (Simrad IS12 and IS15)
Tillerpilot (Simrad TP32)
VHF Radio – fixed (Simrad RD68)
VHF radio – handheld (Simrad HD50)
VHF radio – handheld, in ditch bag (Uniden Atlantis 250)
White LED navigation light (Aqua Signal, battery powered)
Halogen map lamp
Battery monitor (Sterling Power Products)
Locator beacon (MarineTrack)
Animal tracking tags x 3 (TOPP Program)
Watermaker (Spectra Ventura 150) + manual backup (Katadyn Survivor 06)
Bilge pump (Bosworth)
Radar enhancer (Sea-Me)

For Nutrition on the long voyage she will pack these items:

Stage One (San Francisco to Hawaii):

75 Natural High Dinners (assorted)
200 packets of jerky
200 bags of mixed salted nuts
560 LaraBars
5 x 500g bags of freeze-dried prawns
10 x 300g bags of freeze-dried sweetcorn
10 x 300g bags of freeze-dried peas
10 x 300g bags of freeze-dried kidney beans
4kg of mung beans and adzuki beans for sprouting
4 x 1.6kg jars of Go Electrolyte
2 x 1.6kg jars of Rego Protein
USANA vitamin supplements

The following video shows her previous voyage across the Atlantic:

Roz’s Journey can be followed via her blog here.  Filed under Weird World News

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