Background
Robins was born in Perth on 3 September 1935.
Robins was born in Perth on 3 September 1935.
He graduated from Claremont Teachers College in 1955.
He began sailing as a child, and became partially quadriplegic after receiving a spinal fracture from a car crash at the age of 21. He died on 22 May 2003, four weeks after being struck by a car. He began sailing at the age of eleven.
At the age of 21, he was a passenger in a car crash on Mounts Bay Road, which left him with a broken neck and a fractured spine.
As a result, he became a "walking quadriplegic", with reduced mobility and strength in all four limbs. He was known by his fellow sailors as "Stumbles".
Robins" first national sailing competition was the 14 ft Championship in 1958, and his first international competition was the Sydney Sailing World Championships in 1973. On 23 April 2003, Robins was struck by a car while crossing Mends Street in South Perth.
He died on 22 May after being in a coma for four weeks.
He worked in real estate, was a commissioner of the Western Australian Waters and Rivers Commission, and was a board member of the Western Australian ParaQuad Association. He was also a member of the Australian National Maritime Museum"s governing council from 1998, an executive director of the Duyfken 1606 Replica Foundation, and a long-time member and deputy chair of the Swan River Trust.