Jim; I believe that I met you as you were walking back up the red ground road, just after got back from your rubber raft float out to sea. Memories from that time and place might get a bit distorted, but it was either you or someone who told me about your experience right after it happened(you know how news travels in Negril).
When that event was mentioned on Negril.com, a while back, the memory of hearing about a guy who fell asleep on his raft and woke up, sunburned to hell and out of sight of land came roaring back. It must have been something to wake up like that and only see the glow of the beach on the horizon.