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(gentle music)

(wind howling)

(orchestral music)

(indistinct radio chatter)

- [Radio] Oh, there you have it,

the astronauts are on their way home

and it's another first in space,

authorities at Cape Kennedy estimate

splash down will occur at 2:45 Pacific time next Thursday.

Arrangements have been made for the families of the men.

- Oh, no.

Hey, hey watch it, crazy fools.

Stay up there fellas it's a lot safer.

Weird thing happened to me I woke up and could hear,

a different wave pattern on the hall,

so I checked the compass and I found out,

I'm going due South instead of West,

I was heading for the South pole,

this is the first time self steering gear hasn't worked,

I don't know for sure where the heck I am,

I have to wait for a sun fix.

- [Radio] Radio Fiji news,

fresh reports have reached us about Robin Lee Graham,

the 17 year old Californian,

who is attempting to sail around the world

in a 24 foot sloop - 23 foot.

- [Radio] Because of the recent storm,

the boy's parents expressed anxiety for their son's safety

and asked authorities for help,

a Navy plane sighted Dove early this morning,

some 132 miles Southeast of Suva

and now it looks as if all as well for the young sailor,

grave concern was expressed this afternoon over a report,

that rhinoceros beetles had been discovered

on a corporate plantation on (indistinct)

- Mr. Graham?

Do you mind if we take some photographs?

- No, go ahead.

Hi, cat.

(Rob laughs)

(boat engine revving)

- Hi.

How much is this one?

- 50 cents.

Thank you.

- Please, my cat, where is she?

- Oh, I put it over there,

must have run under one of the lorries,

nobody seems to have seen it happen.

(gentle music)

- I heard about your cat Graham, I'm very sorry.

I won't presume to tell you not to be upset

but I will say if you will allow me, that one does survive.

(dishes clanking)

(boat engine revving)

- Thank you.

(knocks on the door)

Anybody home?

- Yeah, go away.

- I saw you last night and I want to congratulate you.

I thought you staggered out of that bar

with a great deal of dignity.

- What do you want?

- I decided you need a friend this morning,

I'm Patti Ratteree,

really though if you lose something you like,

you're entitled to feel bad about it.

- I guess so,

well, I didn't have to make such a fool of myself.

- Forget it nobody even noticed,

I hear you're the youngest sailor to try this trip.

Well, how long ago did you leave Los Angeles?

- Just over a year.

What are you doing way out here?

- I'm sort of going to Australia little by little.

- But how come Australia?

- I don't really know, I just have a feeling about Australia

and my intuition tells me I'm going to make it.

- How reliable is your intuition?

- Pretty good.

No really, I don't know how to explain it

but I sometimes have the feeling

of being able to see a little way ahead,

that's a time of sort of a path

and I could pick out my footprints before I made them.

- What if you just don't like Australia once you get there?

- That's all right I can always leave,

I'm good at leaving places, I hope your hangover is cured.

- Yeah, it is, you're a good nurse.

- You're a good patient.

- I mean, are you doing anything tonight?

- Yeah I am, I'm sorry.

- What about tomorrow?

- Tomorrow night?

- Any time tomorrow?

- I won't be here, I'm taking the bus to Latoka,

first thing in the morning.

Are you asking me for a date?

- Well yes I was, so what's wrong with that?

- Nothing there's just one problem you're too old for me.

- What do you mean, how old are you?

- 19 pushing 20 and you are just 17,

newspapers are full of it.

- Well, what of it, does that bother you?

- No, not really.

Here we are, here's my hotel courtesy of some friends,

they're letting me sack in with them.

Listen, I've got to run, bye.

(gentle music)

- Orange please.

- Orange?

- Look could you help me?

I'm supposed to meet a friend of mine here in Latoka

but I don't know where she's staying.

- Oh, very simple only two hotels here

if not at one the lady surely must be at the other.

- Hi.

- Hi, where did you come from?

- I sailed over.

- Must've been a quick trip.

- Yeah it was I sailed all night

- All night? - Yeah.

- Well you're just in time,

I'm taking the bus back to Suva in about 36 minutes.

- What happened?

- Nothing happened I just don't like it here anymore.

- Look, if you wanna go back to Suva, I'll take you.

- You just got here.

- No, that's all right, I just came for the trip,

I can go back anytime you want to.

I owe you one remember you cured my hangover.

- That's right I did

all right, all right fine, I was invited to a party here,

so, you come with me and afterwards we'll sail back to Suva.

- Yeah, sure that's fine.

- Finally, at the end of my sophomore year,

I said, okay, that's it, I tried it and I didn't like it,

I am never going to like it so now I'm finished.

- So what'd they say?

- Well, they started out easy

they said but if you don't go to college what will you do?

I was ready for that one so I said, I'm going to travel,

you pay me the money that you would have spent

in my last two years of college

and I'll educate myself by travelling around the world,

well, that was the biggest bomb ever fell in the house.

♪ Next morning just that sun up ♪

♪ We found where rocket fell ♪

♪ Down in a wash out 30 feet below ♪

♪ Beneath his horse smashed to a poke ♪

♪ Disburse had rung a nail ♪

♪ For our little Texas stray pool Wrangler Joe ♪

Voila, talent as well as beauty.

- What kind of song is that?

- That's what you call an authentic Western ballad.

- Pretty bloody.

- Well, let's take off for Suva.

- Why don't you sail with me to the Assawas

- You're kidding?

- No, I'm not.

- I thought you were supposed to make this trip,

around the world all by yourself.

- Oh, I am, well, I was just going up to the Assawas

for a week or two, then I come back to Suva before I go on.

- Kind of a side trip in other words?

- Yeah, yeah, that's right.

- Well, that's an interesting proposition,

it is a proposition isn't it?

- What?

Oh, no, I didn't mean that,

well, you said you were sleeping on that other boat,

I mean, there are two bunks down there and a sleeping bag,

besides I could sleep up on the deck

if you think I'm gonna try anything.

- Enough I'm convinced.

- Now, what's so funny.

- The whole idea is funny, it's most ridiculous.

- All right, all right go to hell.

- Wait a minute you didn't let me finish,

I just said it was ridiculous,

I didn't say I didn't wanna do it,

I'd love to do something ridiculous.

♪ Sail, the summer wind ♪

♪ No need to change your restless ways ♪

♪ Ride the rolling tide ♪

♪ Through whisper nights and golden days ♪

♪ Sail the summer wind ♪

♪ From dream to dream and shore to shore ♪

♪ Go and get to know ♪

♪ If there's a place that offers more ♪

♪ Now you must go now ♪

♪ While there's still a world to see ♪

♪ Go you better go while it's still free ♪

♪ Sail the summer wind ♪

♪ And when you sail on every sea ♪

♪ Sail the summer winds back home to me ♪

- Hey, listen we arrived I'm gonna get some dinner.

(indistinct chatter)

Dessert.

So from Honolulu to Fenning island to Tonga to Fiji,

so from here I head on over to the Solomon Islands,

then on over to Australia and I cross the Indian ocean,

to Portuguese East Africa, Mozambique,

that's Thera to the wrinkle marks,

then I work on down to Durban, South Africa,

work myself around the coast to Cape town,

I cross the Atlantic to Panama,

after that I've got it whipped,

over the Galapagos islands and back to Los Angeles.

- Just like that?

- Well, that's what I plan to do.

- How long will it take you?

- I don't know, I don't mind I've got plenty of time.

- You must have a great mother and father,

let you go off by yourself like they did.

- Well, we did have a little flak from mom,

quite a bit as a matter of fact but between the two of us,

dad and I broke her down, my dad taught me to sail,

he's a great sailor.

- You're pretty lucky.

- Yeah, I know.

I kept asking myself where I was heading back home,

I just had to get out and see what else was going on.

- I don't think I could do it your way,

I mean, I really love the ocean

but I don't think I'd like to be a loner.

- No, see that's the great part,

I mean, I can just set a course and then I go

and when I get out there,

it's just the boat and me and the sea,

when I'm out there I feel like this big bird,

coasting on the thermals, I can feel every wave,

I can feel every change of wind,

without even thinking about it, I can just soar.

- Hey, you really opened up.

- Yeah, I guess I did,

yeah but carrying on like that is really a waste of time.

- No, it isn't just say what you feel when you feel it.

- Well, right now I feel sorta,

sort of romantic in a horny sort of way.

- Do you?

Yeah.

Well, cool it help me wash the dishes.

(gentle music)

(Patti laughing)

- Oh my gosh.

- Hey, what do you think you're doing?

- Oh if you ever do that again?

- What's the matter?

- What's the matter, I came up here,

what do you think I thought?

- You missed me huh?

- Don't flatter yourself.

- Okay, here I go.

(audience singing)

(speaks foreign language)

- They're praying for you.

- Why me?

- Fiji people have great respect for the sea,

they're asking God to give you safe passage.

(speaks foreign language)

- What's the matter?

- Nothing, it's just, I don't know nothing,

just leave me alone I'll be all right.

- Okay, what is it, what's wrong?

- Nothing it's me being childish.

- [Man] Robin Graham ahoy,

Robin Graham ahoy, glad I found you,

Suva radio made cable for you,

hoping I might run into you up here,

you want to come on board or shall I read it to you?

- Go ahead read it.

- Picture editor of ' "'World Travel Magazine'" ',

meeting you Honiara, Solomon island, 10th November stop,

has interesting proposition stop,

have told him decision up to you

but make every effort to meet him there

as soon as it's signed love dad.

(car engine revving)

- I didn't want you to be alone I brought you something.

- Hey great what's his name?

- Avanga it means bewitched.

- Here let me take it.

- Oh, no bastard.

- Oh, I'm sorry, oh, it really did give you a deal.

- Oh, it's all right, I'll train him in three days

if not he better know how to swim.

- I got a job on a yacht,

they're heading for Auckland, New Zealand.

- Who's yacht, your boyfriend from Suva?

- No, it's not but what if it was,

I can do what I want to do can't I?

Let's not say stupid things to one another, all right,

let's not ruin everything.

- Sorry, I just keep thinking you're going away

and that's the last I'm gonna see of you.

- Not a chance, I'm the original bad penny.

There, now I'll have to track you down,

to get my property back.

If you wanna send me a postcard,

the yacht club in Auckland will find me.

(gentle music)

(cat snarling)

Come on Avanga,

come on Avanga don't rip up Patti's blouse.

That's a good boy.

You're really crowding your luck you know that?

I made some cinnamon toast the way we used to have it

but for some reason it tastes lousy not fit to eat

and this psycho cat is not fit to live with either

and I have no prize either not these days,

I wasn't gonna write you for awhile,

I thought I'd try and play hard to get

but I'm not good at that

is there any chance you can meet me in Honiara?

(boat engine revving)

- Hi, Robin, Mike Turk, "World Travel Magazine",

did you get a cable from your father?

- Yeah, what's it all about?

- Teenager sails around the world, three instalments,

your picture on the cover we'll make an advance payment,

what do you say to that?

- Well, what does my dad think about it?

- I think your dad would like it, help a lot with expenses,

let me tell you how I see this kid,

you and little Dove will become terribly important

to millions of people you never heard of,

sailing around the world doesn't mean anything by itself,

neither is climbing Everest,

what really matters is someone saying, well, he didn't quit,

I guess I won't quit, you'll be giving people everywhere,

a chance to celebrate the human spirit that never surrenders

That the only shirt you've got?

It doesn't matter in fact it's kind of a good idea,

all I have I have in my bag end quote,

I'll give you some equipment to cover yourself at sea,

I'll send one of our photographers,

to do the first spread on you when you get to Darwin.

- What kind of pictures do you want?

- Oh, Robin Graham battling the seas,

Robin Graham sailing up jungle creeks,

Robin Graham dancing with natives.

- Who's gonna be handling the Robin Graham dolls?

- Hey, that's not a bad idea kid,

now there's no way around it,

you're not gonna get to Darwin till the new year,

kind of stick out the hurricane season right here,

so don't forget we take a lot of pictures,

all right, I'll pick those up at Darwin,

leave you a fresh supply of film.

- Yeah fine. - Turk.

Well, guess that's it Robin, take care of yourself,

have a good Christmas, let us hear from you.

Stay with it kid.

- This is the fifth letter I've written you,

I tore the first four up but I'm gonna mail this one,

I'll leave the minute the hurricane season ends,

then I'll head for Darwin please try and meet me there,

I hope you can, I miss you.

Merry Christmas you rotten cat.

(gentle music)

Hey there, how are you?

Hey, how's the water?

Hey, hold it, hold it.

Look out Avanga, we've got company.

Hey, one look at you and they took off.

(cat snarling)

(gentle music)

Excuse me, harbour master?

I'm Robin Graham, I just run-

- Oh yes, I've heard about you, welcome to Darwin.

- Thanks, has anyone been asking for me?

- Well let me have a look.

- I'm expecting a girl.

- Aren't we all.

Yes, yes, here's one for you from Mr Hunty

- Hunty?

- Huntley Charles Huntley, "World Travel Magazine",

how are you?

- Hi.

- Now, I think we need some shots of you in Arnhem land.

- Arnhem land?

- Yes among the Aborigines, Robin Graham in the outback,

so we can take a helicopter in the morning.

- How long is that gonna take?

- Two days, I'll show you the layouts,

when we get back to the hotel.

Now, if you would just allow Mr. Graham,

to hold your spear a moment for you that's a good fellow,

good, very good, very good Robin, you too sir.

- Listen, Mr. Huntley, I've got a great idea

for improving your story,

the world travel will absolutely flip out,

well, you could tell them you thought of it,

probably make you senior editor.

- I am a senior editor.

I wonder if there isn't something,

we could do about your hair?

- Well, it's pretty monotonous,

sailing around the world all by yourself,

well, if it's monotonous for me you can imagine,

how monotonous it'll be for all those readers huh?

- Well, photographed monotony has been the trademark

of "World Travel Magazine" for over 75 years,

our readers find it comforting.

- But you haven't even heard my idea yet,

came to me like that Robin Graham and a beautiful girl,

go around the world together in a sailboat,

now how about that?

You know, I even know the girl we can get to do it,

you'll just love her Mr. Huntley, especially her hair,

oh, she has very clean hair not like mine no,

I mean, she has really clean, very well brushed hair.

- Dismiss it from your mind Robin,

world travels sponsors voyages of scientific exploration

not floating bordellos.

- Yeah, this may be very funny for you but it's not for me,

listen, Mr. Huntley,

if someone's flying from Auckland, New Zealand to Darwin,

how long is it gonna take them?

(truck engine revving)

- What the flying are you doing out here?

- Hi, I'm going to Darwin.

- Damn right you are 700 flipping miles to Darwin, chum.

Are you a Yank?

I knew it before you said a word,

A Sheila goes walkabout in Never-never, it's always a yank.

Alight climb up mate, you'll see your boyfriend tomorrow afternoon.

That is if you still want to after a night

on the road with Fred C. Pearson.

(truck engine revving) (gentle music)

- Hi, your dinner's getting cold.

- Patti.

- I did write but I'm like you I didn't mail them,

I wanted to come back

but I thought it'd be better for you if I didn't,

better for me too maybe,

I didn't wanna keep you from finishing,

something you had started, I didn't want to confuse you.

- What made you change your mind?

- Nothing I still feel the same way

but once I got your letter I couldn't stay away, I couldn't,

I told you I was a bad penny.

- [Rob] A week after Patti hit Darwin the great idea struck,

an idea almost beautiful in its simplicity,

namely what the hell am I going on

with this thing for anyway, who needs it?

I've got everything I want right here,

Patti and I could live in the boat

and I could get a job ashore.

Patti said it was a big decision

and we should at least sleep on it,

I didn't really need to sleep on it

but I learned quite a lot about women by then,

so I waited until the next morning to break the news.

I've made up my mind.

- You're sure?

- Yeah, I'm positive.

- [Man 2] Hey Rob, rendezvous, you're late.

- Yeah, I'm coming. - Come on.

(indistinct chatter)

- [Man 2] Keep your mind on your work,

got to put it on for you.

- Yes I know the feeling.

(gentle music)

- Can I help you?

- I'm looking for Robin Graham.

- He's still at work should be home in about an hour

is there anything I can do?

- No, no, I'll be back later.

- Mr. Graham.

- How did you?

- It wasn't hard, I've been expecting you.

- And Robin too?

- I don't think so but I know he'll be thrilled to see you,

he missed you a lot more than he knows.

- Well, tell him I'm staying at the hotel Darwin

and I'm very anxious to see him too and thank you Patti,

it is Patti isn't it?

- Yes Mr. Graham.

- Yes, of course, thank you.

- Hey dad.

- Hey Rob.

- Dad, this is great when did you get in?

- About an hour ago.

I was on the dock trying to find you.

- Then you saw Dove isn't she in great shape

and Patti, did you see her?

- Yes, yes I did, look son,

why don't we go up to my room here,

well, I'd like to talk to you.

- Yeah, yeah, okay.

You came here with your mind all made up.

- We'll come to that later what I'm trying to say now-

- Well if we don't talk about her,

we can't talk about anything.

- There's such a thing as a commitment.

- Well, I'm committed to Patti and that's all, that's all.

- What about all the days and nights we spent together,

planning this whole trip?

It's hard to believe you used up all that enthusiasm.

- Things have changed, I can't help it.

- Well try to see it from our side,

we hadn't heard from you for a while, Mr. Huntley came back

and told us you had scrubbed the magazine stories,

that you're taking a job here in Darwin,

that you were living with some woman.

- Her name is Patti, dad she exists.

- Okay, Patti, now she's older than you are,

you're alone thousands of miles from home,

young men do things on an impulse.

- Now if you and mom didn't trust me,

why did you ever let me go?

- I'll be damned if I-

you're right, I'm sorry,

now look son we've never had to shout at each other,

I've always given you a great deal of freedom

because I knew you could handle it

and that's not going to change,

so let's go on down to the Dove and have a chat with Patti.

And then when Rob sailed out of Los Angeles,

I was so excited, I knew he was going to make it,

I knew that he was going to do something,

that I'd never been able to do,

I guess that's been my trouble all along,

I didn't realise how much I'd counted on it,

till he called it off,

well, I was in a state of shock at first,

I guess I'd become a little league father

without ever knowing it

and Patti, thank you for a most elegant dinner.

- Dad, do you want me to get you a cab?

- Thanks Rob.

- Rob, you let him do it you let him buy you the boat,

and fit it out you let him charge your course.

- Yeah but I was a spooky little kid then.

- Well you own something now, oh right it's stupid

but sometimes people owe other people stupid things.

- Patti I can't do it,

I can't make anything but you be important anymore,

I'm scared of having to leave you again,

I start thinking about something happening to you,

about you needing me and me not being there,

about maybe never finding you again,

look Patti come with me,

now if you came with me well, we could go anywhere.

- When this is over we'll go on own voyages then

and nobody else's but you have to finish this alone?

We met because you were sailing alone and I don't know,

just feel it wasn't a gift you have to earn it,

otherwise things won't work out right for us,

we won't finish things together,

I feel it Rob.

- Well, I sure hope old Huntley,

hasn't thrown away all that film.

(gentle music)

- [Patti] Do you think "World Travel Magazine",

would be interested in a young girl,

making her way around the world entirely by bus?

I just got a job as a nanny to two little boys,

who live in Alice Springs,

so I'll be all right for money for awhile,

the mother is Australian married to an Italian,

so you can imagine the boys have quite a temperament,

I've just discovered I'm very good with children,

something else I've discovered I miss you very much,

this letter should be in Mauritius when you get there,

I'm only disappointed that I won't be

but I know we made the right decision,

time will soon pass and we'll be together again,

all my instincts tell me so.

- Avanga, get out of there.

I'll kill you Avanga.

I'll get you Avanga, I'll get you.

(cat snarls)

Madagascar is now off my starboard beam,

wind is about 10 knots I guess.

No, oh you bastard, you dirty bastard

(gun shots fired)

(wind howling)

Dear God,

Jesus, please somebody.

- Come on stop that, enough, up, up, up, come on.

Now, then I'm going to teach you a new game.

- What is it?

- Oh, it's a lovely one but it takes great self-control

and I don't know if you're old enough.

- Yeah, we're old enough.

- All right then we all lie down we close our eyes

and the first person who moves or makes a tiny sound loses,

okay then, one, two, three, go.

- I think that game has quite a future.

Didn't you tell me you know an American boy,

who's sailing around the world?

- Yes.

- What was his name?

- Robin Lee Graham.

- Yeah, that's it,

seems like there was a bad storm around Madagascar,

there's a report here that he and two other boats went down.

- [Captain] This is the Captain again,

you may be interested to see Madagascar,

coming up on the left-hand side of the aircraft,

Mozambique passengers are advised,

that we should arrive in Lourenco Marques on schedule.

- Ms Ratteree.

My name's Lunscombe

Mozambique correspondent for the Johannesburg Star,

your consel said that I could probably find you down here,

I'm sorry, Ms. Ratteree it's a week now

and my paper wants to follow through with a story,

we've had cables off to Madagascar,

we're constantly on the phone to the wire services,

nobody seems to know anything,

except the boat went down somewhere-

- They don't even know that either.

- I'm sorry Ms Ratteree, please forgive me,

what I meant was that's still the only story we've got.

- It's okay.

- Is it all right if I ask you,

do you think you'll be in Lourenco Marques, much longer?

- I'll be here every day, yes,

he isn't dead, I'd know.

(telephone ringing)

Hello yes.

- Fernandez the captain of the port.

- Oh, thank you, I mean obrigado.

(gentle music)

- Rob, Rob.

- Hey, Patti, Patti.

- Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob, Rob.

- Come on, that's it, Patti that's it, come on,

give me your hand,

I got you.

- We wanna get married.

- Are you a resident in Mozambique?

- No.

- Then it is necessary,

to have the following documents, passports.

- Yeah, right here.

- Birth certificates, certificates of citizenship, health.

- We're healthy and we're really extremely healthy.

- Certificate of permanent residence and if under 21,

notarized parental permission.

- It's gonna take me weeks to get all that stuff.

- I'm sorry it is the law.

You are Robin Lee Graham,

the boy who sailed around the world alone?

- Yeah, that's right.

- May I have your autograph please,

it's not for me of course it's for my daughter.

- I may be an under-aged birth certificateless,

non-resident of Mozambique

and I don't know the right words to say

but Patti from this day on,

from this minute from this second on,

I wanna spend the rest of my life with you.

- You just said the right words.

- Man and wife?

- Man and wife.

Where did you get this?

- Well, I always carry it around with me

in case I meet some girl I wanna marry.

- Cub Scouts of America pack 121.

- It's the only ring I got.

- It's the only ring I want, it's the only ring I ever want.

(upbeat music)

- Excuse me are you Robin Lee Graham?

I'm Bjorn Anderson, "World Travel Magazine".

- Whoa, here we go again.

- Whether thou go West, I go West and whether we go west,

there also go with some guy from "World Travel Magazine",

clicking away from Mozambique,

all the way down the South African coast,

knocking himself out,

to get Patti on a second hand motorcycle

and me on the deck of Dove and the same shot.

(gentle music)

Well, there she is the Cape of Good Hope,

just around the corner is Cape town and from there on in,

they tell me it's all downhill to California,

oh, they've got to be kidding.

(car engine revving)

- It's 6,000 miles to Panama,

are you sure you've got enough food?

- Yeah, I think so.

- That's not much grub for two people.

- It's not for two, it's for one.

- Well man, I must admit throw the youth in me on this trip.

- Hi. - Did you get the ticket?

- Right here in the safe,

Panama by the way of Barcelona, Paris and London.

- How soon?

- That's the bad part, next Thursday.

- Well, if that wind from the North doesn't change,

you'll be leaving before I do.

- Rob, where are you Rob?

What are you doing?

- Nothing just having a glass of water,

why don't you go back to sleep.

- No way I'm awake now, let me turn the light.

- No, don't.

- What is it?

- Nothing.

- Come on, what is it?

What are you thinking about?

- Just something I remember from the time I was a kid,

dad used to have this old sailing map

from the time when they thought that the world was flat

and nobody knew what would happen if you sailed out too far,

some people thought he'd fall off the edge,

all that map said was unknown seas here there'll be dragons.

What's the matter with me Patti?

Now for the first in my life I think I'm scared.

Hey, did you take my comb?

- What?

- What happened to my comb?

- I don't know what you're saying.

- How can I sail the ocean without a comb?

I love you, Patti, I love you.

- I love you.

(ships and tanks honking)

- July 31st and I've just sighted a tanker,

very first sign of life for over a week now,

it's nice to know I'm not the only idiot,

floating around out here

and there's Saint Helena of the star-board quarter,

that's where Napoleon went bananas,

I sure hope it isn't contagious.

(boat engine revving)

Oh, terrific Rob, now you're really up the creek.

(gentle music)

(Rob laughs)

Oh, it's terrible.

Oh and the hot copper sky and the bloody sun at noon,

right up above the mastic stand no bigger than the moon

and day after day, day after day,

we stuck nor breath nor motion,

just like an idle painted ship upon a painted ocean

Sam, you sure as hell know where I'm at, I'm alone,

I'm alone, all alone, alone on this wide, wide sea

I never say took pity on my soul and agony,

I'm alone, I'm alone, all alone on this wide, wide sea.

Ascension Island when the currents took Dove past it,

I got another one of my mighty flashes,

the thing about going crazy,

I mean, real lock you up and throw away the key crazy

is how simple and totally sane everything looks,

marooned in the doldrums 22 days without wind,

no problem just abandon ship but what about dad?

What about world travel?

They'll never know, no one will ever know.

Emergency, emergency boat is on fire,

we'll try to make Ascension island in the dinghy.

(fire crackles)

(gentle music)

(aeroplane engine revving)

- Are you Patti?

I'm Tom Barkley, world traveller, Robin asked me to meet you.

- Is he all right?

- I wouldn't say he's great, he didn't make Panama,

he's over on the Caribbean side of the San Blas islands,

I'll take you to him.

(aeroplane engine revving)

- Rob.

Hey, we seem to keep running into each other don't we?

- Oh, Patti.

- When we get out of the canal,

how long will it take you to get to the Galapagos?

- Two weeks, maybe.

- Okay, that's enough, no more.

- I'm sorry I didn't hear you.

- You've got to fix for everything we do is just posing,

what the hell are you doing to us?

(dishes clanking)

- I hate this boat, I hate it, I hate this boat, I hate it,

I hate this boat, I hate it, I can't even stand up straight.

(Rob sobbing)

- Hi, sexy.

- Hi.

- How are you today? - I'm fine.

- I brought you a magazine only two years out of date

and mail from home it's a letter from your father.

Only okay, I expected more emotion,

blink your eyelids or something.

Aren't you going to read it?

- You read it.

- Dear Robin, when you started on this trip,

some woman wrote to the Los Angeles times and said,

what kind of irresponsible parents are they,

letting a child risk his life like that?

But your mother and I had come to accept,

that our work was done that when you had sailed,

we realised that when we saw you again,

you would be a man looking for a life of your own,

I don't think I'd have ever let you go

if I didn't love you so much

but in my heart I knew it was the right thing to do,

I told your mother that if anything happened to you

then it would have been the end of me if it did,

I would still feel the same,

I didn't really care about you sailing around the world,

I cared about you sailing around by yourself,

do you understand that?

All right, you've done it, enough is enough,

you don't have to prove anything more to me or to anyone

if I were you and I only wish I were,

I'd sail Dove across to Ecuador,

sell her there and use the money to have a holiday,

before you and Patti fly home to LA, love dad.

PS,

why don't you take this opportunity,

to make an honest woman of that madly attractive,

wildly intelligent, sensitive, real travel,

charming girl of yours,

who also happens to be a superb cook

is wonderful with children and is also

if you will forgive my injecting a personal note,

terribly, terribly sexy.

- Dad wrote that?

- No, I thought I'd add that myself,

I don't mean to be pushy or anything

but there comes a time in a young girl's life,

when she decides that maybe might be a good idea,

to marry the man she loves.

(church bells ringing)

- [Rob] Dear mom and dad, Patti and I were married today

at Santa Cruz in the Galapagos islands,

I've taken your advice and decided to sell Dove,

Patti flies off to Ecuador to find a buyer,

while I pack the boat up,

I'll sail her across and meet her in about a week,

then we'll be on our way home.

(aeroplane engine revving)

So there it is finito, I suppose it's not too bad,

I did sail three quarters of the way around the world,

you can't win them all.

(gentle music)

I've got to finish this trip,

I've got to finish it for myself.

- Hey senor, hey, habla ingles?

- Sure.

- Hey, listen senor will you do me a favour,

I'm Robin Graham I just want you to give this letter,

to my wife she's a beautiful girl,

she's at the hotel (indistinct)

Hey, she's really very pretty,

I mean, she's got hair down to here like this,

you can't miss her,

so give her this letter and tell her her husband loves her

and he's gonna meet her in Los Angeles,

gracias, muchos gracias.

♪ Sail the summer wind ♪

♪ No need to change your restless ways ♪

♪ Ride the rolling tide ♪

♪ Through whisper nights and golden days ♪

♪ Now you must go now ♪

♪ While there's still a world to see ♪

♪ Go you better go ♪

♪ While it's still free ♪

♪ Sail the summer winds ♪

♪ And when you sail on every sea ♪

♪ Sail the summer winds ♪

♪ Back home to me ♪

Well, this is my last recording,

I've travelled 30,600 nautical miles,

I'm two inches taller,

I'm married to this crazy girl,

we're gonna have a crazy baby.

Oh, I've been around the world,

I still can't drive a car but you know I feel great,

now, I nearly blew it but I didn't,

that's all that really matters.

Thank you Dove,

thanks Lord,

we made it.

(ships honking)

(indistinct chatter)

I love you Patti.

(gentle music)