Douglas Robertson

I was a man already, you know.

But he was a very tough, tough character.

And Dougal melted.

He said, I'm sorry, son.

I should never have asked.

It was a fool's mission, you know.

I should not have asked.

But what does that leave us?

That only leaves us one option left, to sail to the center of the Pacific Ocean, pick up rain,

It wouldn't get there in 10 days.

We've got a 10-day supply of water.

We can get to the doldrums, and we can catch the countercurrent back.

So the current flows in a westerly direction across the Pacific at the equator.

But much like the bath, when you're in the bath and you push all the water to the end of the bath, it flows back.

It finds a route and flows back down to the other end of the bath.

And the Pacific Ocean does exactly the same.

It shoves all the water off westerly, and it mounts up, and then it flows back down through the doldrums in what's called the countercurrent.

The countercurrent is one and a half knots.

That's 30, 40 miles a day.

He says, we'll catch that, and with the help of the sail, we might make 100 miles a day back to the east.