Last Voyage of the Lucette: The Full, Previously Untold, Story of the Events First Described by the Author's Father, Dougal Robertson, in Survive the ... Sea. Interwoven with the original narrative.

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Day 18 – A tasty breakfast of flying fish, turtle meat, mixed with pieces of turtle fat. Saw frigate birds and storm petrels. Clothes were disintegrating causing sunburn.

MLA style: "The Last Voyage of the Lucette.." The Free Library. 2005 Midwest Book Review 26 Nov. 2023 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Last+Voyage+of+the+Lucette.-a0144438111 Herman, Robin (9 September 1973). "Six Survive 37 Days on Ocean in 9-foot Dinghy". The New York Times. ProQuest 119831348 . Retrieved 20 October 2021. The life raft was a tight fit for the six of them and they needed to use a bellows to keep it afloat. But the bellows eventually became useless, and they had to keep inflating it by mouth. But after 16 days, even that was ineffective, and the six of them had to crowd into the little dingy. My mother's fault I'm afraid,' says Douglas. 'She'd argue about not having electricity at the farm and not having proper running water or shoes for the kids, and Dad didn't need that.'

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Dad always felt guilty," concludes Douglas. "He always said, 'I don't know why I did it. I could have taken you to the Mediterranean – that would have done. I didn't have to take you around the world.' But we would say, 'Dad, we survived! You helped us! We did it!'"

During their transit of the Panama Canal, the family members took aboard an inexperienced crew member named Robin Williams, who accompanied them on the next stage of their voyage to the Galápagos Islands and beyond to the islands of the South Pacific. The Last Voyage of the Lucette’ by Douglas Robertson (2005) – available via our online shop. The Bartlett Blog They had no maps, compass or instruments and nobody knew they were missing. Their fight for survival had begun. José Salvador Alvarenga, who spent 438 days drifting in a small open top boat from Mexico to the Marshall Islands. Robertson, Douglas (2005), The Last Voyage of the Lucette, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Seafarer Books, ISBN 1-57409-206-5Day 21 – The sea anchor and float broke away. Douglas rowed after it in a feat of sheer endurance, taking 35 minutes of rowing to retrieve it. That afternoon Douglas saw a green flare often used by submarines on manoeuvres, but nothing came of it. On 15 June 1972, Lucette was holed by a pod of orcas and sank approximately 200 miles west of the Galapagos Islands. The group of six people on board escaped to an inflatable life raft and a solid-hull dinghy with little in the way of tools or provisions. [3] My mother's fault I'm afraid," says Douglas. "She'd argue about not having electricity at the farm and not having proper running water or shoes for the kids, and Dad didn't need that." Day 16 – All on board were in very poor physical condition with sores, boils and sunburn. Still raining. For many years after the rescue the Edmamair had been in the care of Edna, but later was brought to Falmouth where she had begun her voyage and was donated to National Maritime Museum Cornwall. On 26 November 2008, Douglas Robertson gave a lecture entitled ‘The Last Voyage of the Lucette’ which was held at the museum.