Rob Sleep
Rob Sleep
I’ve done a few Arctic expeditions with Jock with some of us walking to the magnetic pole, so when he came up with this expedition it seemed like a natural step forward.
Rob is a yachting and adventure enthusiast who worked for over ten years on a variety of yachts, circumnavigating the world and gaining his captains license. The yachts range from large motor yachts and beautiful classic sailing yachts to being engineer for a state of the art racing yacht campaign, specifically building for the epic Vendee Globe. He has since moved to Lymington where in 2008 he and his colleague set-up their own company, Marine Camera Solutions.
He has always had a passion for more adventurous activities and has, amongst other things, been a whitewater rafting and trekking guide in Nepal, a dive master in the Caribbean and managed a bar in the Alps for the off-piste skiing.
He has been to the Canadian arctic and Magnetic pole with Jock on several occasions, as part of the Polar Race organisation, so knows only too well how isolated you can be in this part of the world, especially in a rowing boat. It is therefore essential to work well as team. With years of ocean crossing’s combined with hands on marine engineering experience, Rob will be an asset to the team.