Douglas Robertson

And that was full of risk because if the dinghy sank, we couldn't get back on it.

And, you know, if it was swamped by a wave or something like that, and we were open,

We had no protection.

We had a canopy that protected us in the raft.

But we made this big decision to leave the raft and go alone on the dinghy.

And so for the majority of the trip, we were on the dinghy and we sailed 750 miles on that dinghy and raft.

We sailed 300 miles to the Dahlgrens and we sailed 450 miles to the east.

And unbeknown to us, although we had a rough idea where we were, we were only seven days off the coast of America when we got picked up.

You know, we would have made it, but you never know.

Death hung on every wave.

Never knew whether you were going to make it, you know, for sure.

When the nighttime came, would you still be here in the morning?

We just didn't know.

We had invented this kitchen, this cafe that we would open when we got home.

And it gave us the excuse to talk about food.

And we talked about food constantly.

You know, real survivors, real survivors talk about food all the time.

Pretend survivors think about camps and fires and...

hunting and exotic formulas but real survivors who have met quite a few all they have the strong visions of food it like just like a jelly and ice cream will appear in your mind's eye and won't go away you know what i mean

And you might not even like jelly and ice cream, you know what I mean?