Douglas Robertson
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He worked very hard, Dougal did, to make that farm work.
But it's hard work and it's non-stop.
And I think my dad's had enough, to be honest.
He wanted to change.
Well, I think it was about two years.
It was quite a time.
68 was the yacht race.
And then 1970, we acquired Lucette.
We were in Falmouth on board Lucette in the October of 1970, maybe the September of 1970.
And we set sail in January 71.
So you can say two years.
I don't blame you for saying the first thing.
It was all planned out.
It was anything but planned out.
Around the world.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But we didn't actually plot a route.
We would go westerly because the winds demanded that.
And we came up with countries that, because we were kids and we were farmers, we had no idea that you had to sort of, if you went to one country, you couldn't go to another country because it was now windlocked.
I mean, there was only certain countries you could go to.