Jack Laurence

So Dougal and his wife got themselves a 76-acre, highly productive and produce-rich dairy farm with anywhere from between 30 to 50 cows producing milk.

However, for a sea captain, farming wouldn't come easy to Dougal, and much like his life at sea, it was sink or swim as he learns on the job.

the trip wasn't exactly off to the best of starts for the inexperienced crew from britain however beyond lisbon lay the tropics warmer water steadier winds and the promise of adventure that had drawn them out in the first place the ocean no longer felt hostile it felt more inviting so they made that decision to press on and what followed was not recklessness but adaptation

Day after day, night after night, they learned on the job.

They stood watch, handled sails in the dark, fixed problems as they appeared.

Slowly, almost without realizing it, fear gave way to competence, and they began to feel like real sailors.

In fact, they were real sailors.

And, you know, you've said before that the farm was struggling.

Over the next two years, they would move from country to country, port to port, getting a suntan and learning the rhythms of the sea and the language of their boat.

It wasn't really making you guys any money, really.

They crossed oceans, shared anchorages with people they'd met along the way, and lived a life few families would ever get to experience.

It felt like an adventure of a lifetime.

And for a long time, that's exactly what it was.

Life on the farm, as we've said, was a constant struggle, with Dougal doing his best to make it work.

Grafting hard and Douglas says even being extremely innovative when it came to his farming.

But no matter how hard he worked at it, he just couldn't make the farm turn a profit.

And it would be one lazy Sunday morning on the farm that would begin to spark the flames of an idea, an adventure, a way out of farming and back to the sea.

The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race was a non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race held in 1968 to 1969 and was the very first round-the-world yacht race.

However, the race was shrouded in controversy.

Why?