Forty years ago, Alan 'Kissard' Buffett was looking out an aeroplane window on the approach to land at Norfolk Island when he noticed a lonely yacht moored at Cascade Bay. As the island’s collector of customs in 1985, it was Buffett's job to know where the yacht was from and who was on it. After touching down, he immediately went to one of his officers at the airport to ask about the yacht. "He said, 'I smell a rat'," Buffett said.