Douglas Robertson
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How dare you say such a thing as that?
But that was the case, you know.
So our planning, our world route planning, left a lot to be desired.
And I'm an accountant now.
I'm 70 years old.
I'm still working as an accountant.
The reason probably that I'm an accountant is because I needed to understand
where my dad went wrong.
You know what I mean?
Dougal never truly understood money or how it works.
So when you're talking about planning, you talk about a budget, wouldn't you?
You know, you'd think, well, you need a budget for this.
We had no budget.
We had no budget.
We were going to sell the farm for a lot of money, buy a yacht for not so much money as we sold the farm for.
And with the difference, we were going to live off it for the circumnavigation, which could take up to four years.
That was our planning.