Mireille Day

and give them clothes and magazines and aspirins in exchange for their food.

No, because of the state of the boat, it already started to deteriorate by that point.

Sean decided to stay close to, not go out into the middle of the Indian Ocean and go to Sri Lanka, but to stay close to the Indonesian islands and go that way up to Singapore.

All up, and that includes a week or so before we actually left Darwin, three months.

And it should have taken about two weeks.

No, not entirely.

Jean and another crew member stayed on and the other three of us left and went our separate ways.

I'd had enough of the boat by this time.

So I caught a plane to Sri Lanka, which is where the boat was originally going to go and which Jean had intended to go after Singapore.

I travelled around Sri Lanka by myself and

and met up with different people as you do when you're travelling by yourself.

Stayed there, I'm not sure how much time altogether, six weeks, two months.

And then eventually Jean and the other crew member arrived and I got to sleep on OCAT one more time.

And what did he hand over to you?

What had he been keeping safe for you on that sea journey?

Yes.

So as a guarantee that I would stay in Sri Lanka and wait for them till they arrived, I left my typewriter on board.

And Jean also wanted me to leave my diary on board.

I said, no, no, that's staying with me.

So the typewriter, which is, you know, sort of represented my writing self, I suppose, did complete the voyage with him and he handed it over to me in Sri Lanka.