Australian father and daughter sail around the world together
It is a journey that has had its challenges.Rob said: "We left Sydney via Darwin, to Bali, Indonesia and then across to Madagascar and then down to Mozambique and then into South Africa and down around the Cape of Good Hope to Cape Town."When we got there I found out I had prostate cancer," he said. "It was a bit of a shock." Rob said he flew back to Australia and was the first in the country to undergo robotic surgery in a single-port operation.He added: "The surgeon said 'come back next month' and I said 'no, I can't. I've got to get back to my boat. I'm going sailing, I've got to finish my trip to Norway'."Luckily, Rob said the surgeon gave him the all clear: "If I had left the boat in Cape Town any longer I would have missed the weather window, to get from Cape Town out to St Helena."
