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0:57.1	Lost at Sea. I'm Jason Horton.
0:58.3	I'm Rebecca Leab.
0:59.9	And this is Ghost Town. And this is Ghost Town. In 1968, Dougal Robertson, his wife Linda Robertson and their four children,
1:21.7	18-year-old Anne, 16-year-old Douglas, and their nine-year-old twins, Neil and Sandy, were listening to the radio.
1:29.7	The Robertsons weren't listening to news or music, but the life of British master yachtsman Robert Knox Johnston's attempt to become the first person to sail solo around the world nonstop, and the family was entranced. The segment prompted
1:46.7	nine-year-old Neil to say, quote, Daddy's a sailer. Why don't we sail around the world too?
1:53.0	Nobody could argue why not, but one idea from a nine-year-old boy would snowball into something
1:59.2	much bigger than a family trip, a wild goal that would turn
2:03.1	dangerous and eventually threaten the lives of the entire family. Today on Ghost Town, the Robertson
2:10.3	family shipwreck. Even before deciding to sail around the world with his young family,
2:16.4	Dougal Robertson had an eventful
2:18.3	and tragic life tied to the sea. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1924, Dougal had always liked
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