 At night, they sang and played a makeshift guitar (built by Kolo from salvaged scrap wood, wire, and coconuts) to keep their spirits up, composing five songs during their exile.Once, they attempted to sail away on a raft they made from logs, but it broke up approximately offshore, and they were forced to return.The breakup of their raft was fortunate in retrospect, as the boys believed they were in Samoa and had started sailing south into the open ocean.