Robert Ian Oatley was an Australian businessman, winemaker, yachtsman and philanthropist. He was perhaps best known for owning the eight-time Sydney-Hobart-winning yacht Wild Oats XI. He bought Hamilton Island, Queensland in 2003 for $200 million, he also owned retirement homes and a villa in Sardinia, Italy. Oatley also established the Rosemount winery, in the Hunter Valley in 1969.
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