[2] The journey took 363 days at sea from San Francisco to Australia.

Cook was born to a middle-class family, the daughter of a teacher and a secretary.

[3] 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 Britannia II, a self-bailing, self uprighting vessel, designed by Uffa Fox.

[2] Cook works for B&Q in Surrey, UK, where most of her co-workers had no idea she had rowed across the Pacific Ocean.

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