Dougal Robertson

We sailed up through the Caribbean.

We touched on a lot of islands.

We sailed across the Atlantic up through the Caribbean.

Ended up in Miami.

I went to Miami, met lots of very interesting people there.

I loved America.

In fact, I couldn't believe we were leaving.

When Dougal announced that we were leaving, I thought we'd settled in America, you know what I mean?

I found it really difficult, a real rip to leave America.

But we did.

We carried on our journey.

Jamaica, the Semblance Islands, fantastic.

Through the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands, fantastic.

And to come was the longest leg of the voyage.

So that was sort of penciled in as the last leg of the voyage, so to speak.

And we thought it would take us three years.

You know, we'd sort of estimated then we're going to get to Australia.

But for now, we were leaving the Galapagos and we were sailing to the Marquesas Islands, which are on the other side of the Pacific.

Yeah, there were none at all.

I mean, the way yachtsmen work is you go to a port and there are other yachtsmen there.