- Date Of Birth: December 1, 1957
- Date Of Death: February 20, 2015
- State: Massachusetts
MARBLEHEAD – Robert “Rocky” James Sargent was born in December 1, 1957 in Watsonville, California. After finishing high school, he told his parents he was taking his surfboard to Hawaii to “live like he was going to die young.” His parents thought, like most kids who say that, he’d be home in a couple weeks, but he was actually starting a life as a professional sailor — and despite that not being a job by any sensible definition, he was able to live comfortably and responsibly with that career his entire life by being honest, being fair, and (though he would never admit this to anyone else) being better at it than anyone else. Rocky sailed around the world before he met his wife and partner Laura Louise Barr at LAX in Los Angeles in 1985 when he hired her to work aboard the yacht he captained. They married in Newport, RI in 1987 and raised a family aboard their C&C 39 Malolo, sailing their way through the Caribbean, New England, and South America.
