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Bob Hobman is a British Australian sailor.




Career


In 1984, Hobman and a group began the expedition to sail Sarimanok, a 59-foot vinta outrigger boat, from the Philippines to Madagascar across the Indian Ocean to recreate how Neolithic humans might have made the crossing. The boat was created from a century-old tree by craftsmen on the island of Tawi Tawi in the Philippines. The crew ate only food that was available to the early humans of Indonesia as rice, taro, fruit, and dried fish. The boat left Tawi Tawi on 1 May 1984. It faced strong winds that damaged the boat's rudders and outriggers and blew it off course. In July, crew member Hans Cristoffer "Chico" Hansen, an artist from Hawaii, died at after being airlifted from Java to an American military hospital in the Philippines. Hobman believed that the illness may have been caused by the 150 litres of water they had picked up in June from Kalimantan, Borneo. The expedition was ended to be retried the following June.
On 3 June 1985, Sarimanok was launched after being rebuilt in Bali. Later that month, the boat was towed to the Cocos Islands after it sprang a leak and one crew member, 59-year-old Colin Putt of New Zealand, fell ill. He was flown to a hospital in Western Australia to treat possible malaria or hepatitis. The boat was repaired as the crew had been baling water from it every half hour for the two previous weeks to keep it from sinking.
In 2018, Hobman published the book Sarimanok about the journey.
In 2013, Hobman and his son Kadek Hobman, travelled to the Greek Island of Kythira to harvest kalama. They stored it to dry over the winter. In May 2014, they returned to build a 11-metre raft from the material. In August 2014, Hobman, his son, and eight others, sailed the raft to recreate an ancient sea journey between Kythira and Crete. They sailed for two days without stopping.
In 2020, Hobman and a group of five others aimed to create a bamboo raft and cross Timor Sea from Indonesia to Darwin, Australia. The group was deported after Indonesian government officials found that they did not have a research permit.




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