William Albert Robinson (13 August 1902 – 16 January 1988)[1] was an American sailor and author of travel books who founded the Malardé Institute in French Polynesia.
Later, on the same ship, he sailed to the Galápagos Islands to shoot a nature film there, but suffered a perforated appendix on the spot.
He made voyages on this ship with a small crew between the islands of the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.
During World War II, he built minesweepers, submarine chasers and landing craft at his shipyard.
[3]: ix After the end of the war, he returned to Tahiti and on the yacht Varua,[4] which he built at his shipyard in Ipswich, sailed with a crew of several men to the South Pacific Ocean, calling at the Galapagos and Panama.