SAILING into a nightmare - Ep 91

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SAILING INTO A NIGHTMARE
Sailing oceans has inherent risks of which most are manageable. This was not the case for Rob’s brother Kerry Hamill who, with crew Stuart Glass and John Dewhurst, in 1978 strayed into Cambodian waters during bad weather, was abducted by the Khmer Rouge.
This episode is a speech Rob gave in 2013 telling his and Kerry’s sailing stories.

In and earlier episode Rob was interviewed one on one and goes into more detail and deals with the grieving process something we all suffer at some point in our lives. We hope this helps others suffering loss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L36bZjBRu20&t=138s

Brother Number One film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39l1fBwYxIQ
Watch Brother Number One film in Australasia (if you can’t get it on Amazon): https://ondemand.nzfilm.co.nz/film/brother-number-one/
Watch Brother Number One on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Brother-Number-One-Rob-Hamill/dp/B07C11DPSX/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=brother+number+one&qid=1614556335&sr=8-1

Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
David Mumford – Ball and chain

Thank you to Saxton Speaking Bureau for the use of their footage

WHO ARE WE? In 1997, after missing out on his Olympic rowing medal dream, Rob decided to row a tiny seven-meter plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race. His first taste of a blue water ocean crossing.
Skip forward to 2014, and married with three children we invested in Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Robert’s 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel’s non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn 18, Declan 16 and Ivan 13, in tow. Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
Our plan? To sail around the world. Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed.
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