Dougal Robertson
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And we told Dougal.
Me and my mother and the twins decided we would tell Dougal we were not going any further.
But the sun came out.
The sun came out, the weather was calm, beautiful.
And you know what?
Those thoughts of returning home just disappeared like fog, you know what I mean?
We changed our minds back again, you know?
And we thought, well, we've done the worst bit.
We've done the worst bit.
We're in the semi-tropics now.
We'll just carry on.
Yeah, that's true.
We had a fantastic trip.
After that, we met up with the Icelandics in Lisbon.
The weather had been so bad, they couldn't get in to Lisbon.
We met up with the Icelandics in Canary Island, sorry.
And, you know, be calm seas or quiet seas, fantastic.
And as you said, you know, we became tanned, suntanned, brown with berries.
We were experienced sailors.
We knew how to sail that boat.