Ocean Freedom By Anne Pilcher Gough

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Ocean Freedom

Anne Pilcher Gough

Having grown up by Sydney Harbour, Anne's love affair with the sea and, later, ocean sailing was ‎sealed from an early age. After living in three different countries with three different sailing ‎partners, she eventually sailed around the world in the 36' steel yacht ‘Kiwi Dream' with her New ‎Zealand partner, Alan Forrest. Taking five years and doing 33,000 sea miles, visiting twenty-nine ‎countries, hitting two whales, surviving a rat infestation, and wearing out two sets of sails, going a ‎less unusual route via Cape Horn (the Everest for sailors) until they were stopped by COVID-19 in ‎the remote Patagonia Chilean channels in 2020, before finally returning to New Zealand. Woven ‎through the book, are some of the author's encounters during forty years of sailing and yacht ‎deliveries. From crossing the Atlantic on a square-rigged ship to sailing the Northwest Passage and ‎fighting hurricane force 4 winds in Antarctica.‎

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Anne Pilcher Gough, author

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.‎

Anne Pilcher Gough, author