Anne grew up by Sydney Harbour in her grandfather's house. After building a cement boat with her first husband in 1979, eventually sailing to Scotland from New Zealand between 1981 and 1984 with her young son, living there for twenty-eight years, sailing on yacht deliveries worldwide, she went on to become the first Australian woman to sail most of the Northwest Passage in 2007, surviving a force 4 hurricane in Antarctica in 2009. Moving to New Zealand in 2013, where she now resides, Anne went on to sail the world, circumnavigating for five years in a 36' steel yacht ‘Kiwi Dream' with her Southland partner, Alan Forrest.
Having grown up by Sydney Harbour, Anne's love affair with the sea and, later, ocean sailing was sealed from an early age.
