Kay Cottee

Kay Cottee AO (née McLaren, born 25 January 1954) is an Australian sailor, who was the first woman to perform a single-handed, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the world.

[5] Over the next nine years Cottee moved to Pittwater where she built a yacht and established a bareboat charter business.

[3] Cottee now lives in Yamba on the far NSW north coast with television producer husband Peter Sutton.

[12][13] When Cottee rounded Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, she celebrated with a lunch of crab, mayonnaise and self baked bread, and a bottle of Grange, a prestigious Australian wine.

Her second book, All at Sea on Land, was published by Pan Macmillan in 1998, about her life in the ten years since the voyage.