Dougal Robertson

And you ask them where they're going and where they've been.

And, you know, there's lots of talk about, yeah, that place is safe.

This is a good anchorage.

That's worth seeing.

If you're going that way, don't leave out that place.

You know what I mean?

That's well worth seeing.

And that's how we learned where to go to, you know.

Everybody, there was quite a number of people doing some kind of a voyage, you know.

Not many doing well, in actual fact, by the time we got to Panama.

There were very few people that were contemplating crossing the Pacific.

But when we got to the Galapagos Islands, there were four or five yachts there waiting to go across the Pacific to the Marquesas or other islands on the other side.

You could go across the Marquesas or you could go down to Tahiti and then go to Australia and New Zealand that way.

There were sort of two routes that you could take.

The easiest one was Marquesas.

So we were going to go Marquesas and then down to Australia and New Zealand that way.

We didn't think about weather because we were in the tropics and the trade winds.

We didn't have really bad weather.

The hurricanes you have, but you keep out of their way, you know.

And we'd come through the worst weather in the Bay of Biscay.