Rosie Swale-Pope had also written her second book, "Children of Cape Horn". In 1983, Rosie Swale sailed solo across the Atlantic in a small cutter, which she had found in a cowshed in Wales and named "Fiesta Girl". Aiming to be the fourth woman to sail alone to America in a small boat from England (the first being Ann Davison in 1952–1953, followed by Nicolette Milnes-Walker in 1972 and Clare Francis in 1973), she also wanted to raise funds for a CAT Scanner for the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. Divorced from Colin Swale, Rosie also found her second husband, sailor and
Betty Davison working as a secretary at the Department of External Affairs. In 1952 she married the architect Arthur Davison, a fellow actor at the Ottawa Little Theatre. In the 1960s, Davison took art classes at Carleton University and the Ottawa Municipal Art Centre, and credited Alma Duncan with encouraging her to return to her artistic career. Further studies in printmaking with Hilde Schreier during the 1970s led Davison to experiment with the creation of cast paper reliefs, and it is in this medium that she found success. Her 1974 print "Paper Roses" received a $1,000 award from the Ontario Arts Council.