Douglas Robertson

He's actually telling me to abandon ship Al.

I couldn't take it in, you know.

And I thought, no, no, no, no, this is a dream.

Dougal appeared on the deck and said, what are you doing?

I said, I'm taking the sails down.

And he said, get the life raft over the side.

I switched then from being in that dreamlike mode to being thoroughly practical, you know.

I got the raft, I put the dinghy over the side, tied the rail, I put the oars in, I got the life raft and threw it over the side and pulled in the cord and thank God, thank God, thank God, it inflated.

you know, because there was always a risk, isn't there, that it's not actually going to work on the day.

And then I was washed off the deck.

And the waves came onto my legs and just took my legs from under me and I was over the side.

And that was the end of our Lissette.

And that was the end of our trip.

And the start of another trip that we hadn't known

no idea how it was going to end.

In fact, we could not see how we were going to survive.

You know, that was my story of how I got off the Lucette.

I got to the raft.

The dinghy was, the raft was still tied to the Lucette at this time.

Well, you can never be quite sure whether things are good luck or bad luck, can you?