Robin Kilroy aka VISTATREKKER
I welcome Robin as a RIBs ONLY author.
Meet him and dive into his action-packed YouTube channel full of thrilling adventures.
Robin joined the merchant navy as a cadet at 17 and remained at Sea for 10 years. 5 years of this was with the British Antarctic Survey.
It was in the British Antarctic Survey that Robin’s experience of RIB work began in ernest. The British Antarctic Survey had both ships and airplanes all working closely together. From this work he caught the flying bug.
Having qualified as a Captain with a Deep Sea Master Mariner’s certificate, he then began at the bottom once again as a cadet but this time in aviation.
Over two decades later he is still flying for a living. Robin reflects that while work now seems very far from those earlier years crossing the pacific with little more than a sextant, strangely it is still also very close to it in many ways.
It is still all about the game of trying to negotiate a working solution between the limitations of your ship and Nature’s power.
Acknowledging that a fair few miles have now passed beneath his keel, Robin realises at this stage of life that it really doesn’t matter how far you travel.
It just matters how closely you look.
It is in that mindset that you might now find him messing around in RIBs, Canoes, Tents and the great outdoors either on a trail, afloat or stepping ashore in the surf.
In recent years Robin has become fascinated by the completeness of videography as a means of communicating the huge distance even a small trip can take us as we try to steal away from the race. This is where the RIB Adventures series on YouTube comes in.
Extraordinary experiences can and should be part of ordinary life.
You can see his work here on RIBsONLY.com: Vistatrekker