Anne Pilcher Gough

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.‎