Douglas Robertson

But I'm just saying, these were great feats of endurance back in those days.

We acquired the Lisette in Malta.

My sister Anne and my dad Dougal went to Malta and bought the yacht back to the UK.

Now, I have to ask, why did they do that?

Why didn't we just go to Malta and sell from Malta?

I mean, why the hell did they have to bring the yacht back and then set sail from Falmouth?

You know, that is just an amazing story.

logic somewhere in there you know but that's what we did so we bought the yacht back and it was in Falmouth that we met the Icelandic family and the Icelandic family were organized planners and they were doing a trip around the world too but they had a much bigger boat that consumed oil it was a motorboat so they were very restricted in their distances whereas we weren't you know

We had deliberately chosen a sailing yacht because the wind is free and you can take as long as you like.

So when we met the Icelanders, it was only then that we started to plan the trip around the world.

So when we set sail, we were going to Lisbon, the Canary Islands.

We were going to reconnect with this Icelandic family.

And then we would go across the Atlantic to Barbados.

So we actually had a plan by the time we'd been in Falmouth for a little while, you know.

But let me just tell you, we had revised the plan.

The whole project was in jeopardy many times while we were in Falmouth.

When we were having second thoughts and doubts about what it was we were doing.

The port captain in Falmouth said, you know, so many people sail around the world from Falmouth.

and none of them ever make it, you know.

It's like they just don't understand how rough the sea can be and how dangerous it is.