Ocean Freedom

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.