I’d liked going to sea, you know, enjoyed the… the small amount I had in the navy, and I was… I was pretty good on the ship, not great, but not bad either. Well, the first year I was at medical school, I met a… a Dutch doctor who had… had spent the war in Indonesia, in what was then the Netherlands's East Indies and then in Holland he was a, you might even call him a romantic figure. He'd been captured during the German invasion of the Netherlands, escaped from the train that was taking him to a POW camp, it was bombed and he escaped, went back, joined the underground; was a main… he was a radio amateur and he was sending messages to the British. He was at the… the unsuccessful paratroop landing at Arnhem, you know. He… there was the advance through Holland and… and Belgium, they wanted to kind of skip ahead of the frontline and they dropped paratroopers in a… in a place called Arnhem in Holland and… and they were decimated. Well, my friend went there, cared for the British wounded and was… wasn't captured by the Germans. So he was a really interesting man. Then he went back in the army and he was… he was in the… fighting in Indonesia during this really chaotic period. But in any case, he had a big sailing yacht in… in Holland. It was in Amsterdam. I think it belonged to his wife actually, and he wanted to sail it to the United States. They were going to emmigrate and he wanted to bring this ocean-going racer actually to the United States. So he advertised that, or he already told some of the students, he said if you want to help me crew the ship back across the Atlantic, you're welcome. So I decided I would do that without explaining that to my parents who I knew would be very concerned if I did. So I went over there and we… the ship, the yacht - The Green Lion it was called, Groene Leeuw - was really ill-prepared for an Atlantic trip, we subsequently learned. It had been, during the war it had been holed up some place, they tried to hide it from the Germans, and it really wasn't in great repair. But in any case, we started off, sprung a leak sailing from Amsterdam to Rotterdam, that was nearly the end of the trip, we were bloody awash by the time we got into Rotterdam. Well, we… that was patched up and then we started off across the English Channel. It took us five days to cross the Channel, because, you know, what happens in the Channel sometimes, particularly in the summer, you get… you get south-west winds and you are literally beating against them the whole way. So… it was… then we got into the Bay of Biscay, and we were beset by calms for 10 days, it took us 10 days to get there, usually you can sail across there in a couple of days, you know. Then we get to… to Galicia, you know, Northern Spain, and - it's the piece just before Portugal - and we put into a little small port there to wait for some weather, you know, so we could sail. And we did get it. We… we took off into the teeth of a really big storm.