ROBIN DAVIE

Three-time Solo Around the World Sailor and Speaker

	Comments... "Our five-year-olds and our fifteen-year-olds, our beginning teachers and our wizened veterans all were captivated, intrigued, impressed, and inspired." - Stephen Watters, Principal, The Green Vale School, Long Island, NY "He challenged every student to pick a life goal and persevere until it is achieved…I can highly recommend Robin to any audience." - Ron Wright, Principal, Clover High School, Clover, SC "Whenever I have a student who runs into difficulties during the school year, I can always refer them back to Robin Davie's messages, which help them get back on track again." - Bruce Geffin, Teacher, Clague Middle School, Ann Arbor, MI

A native of Cornwall, England, Robin Davie is one of a small and elite group of sailors who has completed three solo circumnavigations of the globe in the 1990, 1994, and 1998 Around Alone races. In addition to his three solo circumnavigations, Robin has crossed the Atlantic by sail seven times, competing in the 1988 OSTAR to finish second in the 40-foot Class 4 fleet.

At 27,000 miles in length and seven months in duration, Around Alone is the longest race on earth for an individual in any sport, and is among the most grueling, considered to be the Ultimate Challenge. In the course of his Around Alone races, Robin was dismasted in the Southern Ocean and became one of a very few individuals to have endured the storms of the southern latitudes and rounded Cape Horn under jury rig; in the 1998 race, he maneuvered his rudderless yacht for 23 days over 2,000 miles across the Atlantic to Cape Town, South Africa.

After growing up on the beaches of Cornwall on the southwestern tip of England, Robin went to sea and has more than 20 years of British Merchant Navy experience worldwide on all types of passenger and cargo ships. He spent two years in the Falkland Islands with the British Forces during the Falkland's conflict with Argentina, and two years in the Persian Gulf in the mid-1980s manning salvage and firefighting tugs during the Iran/Iraq war.

Robin's career as a speaker dates back to 1991 when, after completing his first solo around the world yacht race, he began speaking to students who had tracked his progress around the world through the Student Ocean Challenge education program. Since that time, Robin has presented to hundreds of school groups throughout the U.S. and now is a full-time speaker. He is a member of the National Speakers Association.

Robin has sailed the sail, and now he's here to talk the talk, bringing his unique and action-packed perspective on challenge through a riveting tale of life at sea that is punctuated by spectacular slides and video of adventure, sailing, the ocean, and wildlife.