Douglas Robertson

So that was a non-starter.

We would have to do two knots just to stay still, 50 miles a day just to stay still.

And to make some headway, we'd have to do four knots.

That's 100 miles a day.

I would have to row that.

We'd have to separate the raft from the dinghy.

And, you know, but it was still there at the moment.

And then I said, Luke, Dad, you know, we need water.

Water is the key to this survival.

We need to get water from somewhere.

And the doldrums contain water.

It rains heavily in the doldrums.

We know that because we've just come through the doldrums not a month before, and it rained very heavily.

If we sail to the doldrums, we can get more water.

And with more water, we can make another plan.

Whilst we were discussing this, we hadn't reached a conclusion yet about what we would do.

We discussed other things about survival and about food and about water and about tools that we had.

And I always remember a flying fish jumped out of the sea

And the frigate bird swooped down and picked it out of the air and flew off with it, as if to take the piss out of us, you know.

Look what I can do, you know.