Thank you Douglas for sitting down and telling me your extrordinary survival story!

I always start this with the same question, and it's like what's your most memorable cup of tea or coffee in your life? Well, I do have a very memorable cup of coffee. Do you? Yeah. What was that? And I'll tell you how it started. It was aboard the Lucette, about that we were sailing around the world now. We were two days out from Galapagos Islands, across the longest leg of the, around the world trip. Wow. And it was ten o'clock in the morning. And we had the coffee percolator, filling the boat with this aroma, rich aroma of coffee. And just as I was leaving the cockpit, bang, bang, bang. And the told boat shuddered, and the keel snapped in half. Me and my brother saw three kW, one of them with his head split open. It was clear that the kW is its attack, and I put my head down the hatch. And I could see my dad down there, and he was up to his ankles and water. And he said, abandoned ship, abandoned ship. The coffee went down with the Lucette ship, that she sank in two minutes. So we were very lucky to get off. And then the enormity of the problem hit us. OK, we survived that bit, but what now, how are we going to survive? And we made some decisions right there, as I've remembered all my life, that we would not eat each other. No matter how hungry we got, we would not eat each other. That we would look for a rescue ship. The final oath that we gave was to promise to each other, that we would try to stay alive and, 38 days later, having sailed over 750 miles in this small dinghy. We were picked up by a Japanese fishing boat. We had been drinking a mouthful of water, a few mouthfuls of fish and turtles that we called. We lost two and a half stone. We were emaciated, you know, and the captain's name was Captain Suzuki. And he said, "Would you like a cup of coffee?" And we had a cup of coffee. And that was the most memorable cup of coffee I ever had in my life. It should have been the one that we were having on the Lusette, you know? Yeah, yeah. But that never happened. That's a 38 day gap. 38 day gap, yeah. Well, it must have been the best cup of coffee in the world. It was good. Yeah. It was good. Not just because it was coffee, because of the symbolic meaning of a cup of coffee. meant that we were back in civilization.