From Olympian to Politician to YouTube Adventurer: Meet The Cruising Kiwis – Sailing, Travel, & More

Take a Wander with Shebs

Led by parents Rob (an ex-Olympic rower) and Rachel (a twice gold medal winner at the World Triathlon Championships) Hamill, The Cruising Kiwis, along with their three boys, Finn, Declan, and Ivan, have an unusual and poignant story, which really sets them apart from other families who have broken free of the rat race to sail around the world.
Back in the mid-1970s, Rob's eldest brother, Kerry, set off in his 28-foot sailing boat to sail from Australia up to SE Asia. In 1978, while cruising off the coast of Cambodia, he and his crewmate were captured by the Khmer Rouge Navy, imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured, which ended with them being executed, after signing false confessions that they were CIA operatives.
This tragic backstory led the family to decide to retrace Kerry's journey and document it on their YouTube channel.
This interview tells you all you need to know.
✅ Stay connected with The Cruising Kiwis
👉Website: https://thecruisingkiwis.com/
👉YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCHtR8_icbkUsBGjMac07XLw
👉Channel trailer: https://youtu.be/k0RAMuEpbOU?si=URENCImtMT9yay4Q
👉Documentary film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39l1fBwYxIQ&pp=ygUaYnJvdGhlciBudW1iZXIgb25lIHRyYWlsZXI%3D
👉Join The Cruising Kiwis Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CruisingKiwis
👉Kiwi Boys YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCBepFJVfWmbkNK_qLh_1DfQ
✅ Chapters

• Intro
• Welcome Rob
• How Rob fell into loving travel
• How did Rob start his rowing career
• Being self-funded being an Olympic rower
• How Rob met Rachel
• Life after the 1996 Olympics
• Rob's brother killed during the Cambodia genocide
• Has Rob gone to Cambodia
• Stood to become New Zealand Prime Minister
• How sailing as The Cruising Kiwis started
• Documenting the travel
• No longer having a conventional lifestyle
• Agenda to get more sponsors
• Is there another purpose for the sailing
• How to stay connected with The Cruising Kiwis
• Outro

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