Jane Stevens in Monterey Bay. This morning, we received a call from Brooke Glidden, Roz Savage's friend in New Jersey, who relayed a call from Roz's mother, Rita, in England: after her high-tech rowboat, the Brocade, capsized twice in 40-knot winds and 15-foot waves, Roz' marine tracker stopped working. Roz left Crescent City on August 12 to row across the Pacific Ocean. She's rowed the Atlantic twice, and wants to be the first women to row solo across this most vast ocean.

So, for a while (cross your fingers that her marine tracker starts working), Roz has only TOPP's tags to rely on for her position. Don Kohrs, James Ganong, Alan Swithenbank and Glenn Strout at TOPP in Hopkins Marine Station, and Lynn deWitt at NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Center in Pacific Grove are working on getting Roz's position onto TOPP's Live Data maps (go to this page, and click on View The Live Data) so that Rita Savage can send them to Roz. (We've been wrestling with our own computer problems recently, which is why the positions of our animals haven't been updated in a while.) In the meantime, we've downloaded Roz's positions from the Argos satellite, so that Rita and Roz, who has access to the Web, can check this site for her position.

Until we get Roz's position on the Live Data page, we're putting the Argos map here, and will update it again in about three hours, when the Argos satellite makes another pass over Roz. At 6:46 a.m., Roz's position is 39.448N 125.624W.

The last two days have been tough for the long-distance rower. Winds jumped from five to 40 knots -- speeds at which the wind builds humongous waves that crashed into the boat and turned it over. After the second time her self-righting boat rolled, Roz went out in the dark to check on her boat's condition, then, soaked by cold seawater, she crawled back into her sleeping bag. The podcast on her blog (Day 11a: 2nd Podcast: A Night in a Washing Machine) is harrowing, not only for the details, but for the exhaustion and worry that come through this rower's strong voice.

The bad news is that her weather forecaster Rick Shema predicts another 36 hours of these strong winds and 13- to 15-foot waves.