Famous sailors, popular YouTubers, and interesting boats I met
November 22, 2025 · 39 min · 212 views · Luganville, Espiritu Santo
What this video covers
Hugh Robertson completed a solo circumnavigation aboard Sea Change, his 1989 Pacific Seacraft 34, between 2019 and 2025, and recounts the notable sailors, YouTubers, and unusual boats he encountered along the way.▶ 0:00 Mike Golding — four-time Vendée Globe competitor and two-time IMOCA class champion — was sailing an Ultima 52 catamaran named Traverse from New Zealand toward Europe; Robertson met him first in Luganville on Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu, then again in Darwin, Cape Town, and Grenada.▶ 1:06 Golding endorsed Robertson's practice of using only a furling jib in heavy weather instead of a staysail.▶ 2:57 Solo circumnavigator Jeanne Socrates, who holds the record as the oldest person to sail solo non-stop around the world via all five southern capes at age 77, and Webb Chiles, who has circumnavigated six times since 1975, are both profiled.▶ 3:35 Trevor Robertson (no relation) was met in the Vava'u group of Tonga aboard Ironbark III, a 1977 Alaweila 38.▶ 10:30 YouTubers encountered include SV Delos (Brian and Karen, Amel Super Maramu) at Shelter Bay Marina near Colón, and the Bumfuzzle family at Port Resolution on Tanna Island in Vanuatu.▶ 15:53 Robertson also visited Leo Goulden's Tally Ho rebuild on the Olympic Peninsula and photographed the racing boat Improbable at Betts Boats in Anacortes.▶ 14:38 In Cape Town he observed IMOCA 60s, Ultim-class trimarans, and a 13-foot engineless plywood sloop sailed from France by Yann Quinet.▶ 38:25 Robertson notes he has sold Sea Change and considers his ocean sailing complete.▶ 39:16
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