Next Adventure Part II - Sep 8 2009

Hi everyone, well the news is out now. My next project is the Bounty Boat adventure! Today at 11am at St Katherine's dock we held a press conference and with the bounty boat present with tower bridge in the background we launched our new adventure. There was lots of press with TV crews from the UK and also Australia and it was fantastic to see the immediate interest of everyone. I'm teaming up with Don McIntyre and we're recreating the cast-a-ways from the mutiny on the Bounty! Me, Don, and two others who haven't been selected yet (want to come?) are teaming up and we're setting sail from near Tonga on the 28th April, exactly 221 years after the actual mutiny and will end up in Timor around 48days later. I'm sure excited about this as it's going to be a real adventure. We're going to do as close a recreation as possible to the original trip. We won't have much food, we'll have little water, there'll be no torches, there will be no comfortable sleep, there will be no toilet paper, we will be very cold at times and also extremely hot at others, we'll take the weather as it comes and generally head in the direction that the sun sets as we will have no charts! However, we do have a sextant and original watch of the time. What an adventure! Visit www.bountyboat.com for much more information about the boat we're using and what we're doing. One of the main reasons for doing this trip though is to raise awareness and also hopefully a good chunk of money for the Sheffield Institute Foundation who are putting together the first institute for Motor Neurone Disease. This is seen as one of the worst diseases in the world. Usually, once diagnosed, a person will only live on average for 2 years as their body will slowly shut down. Hopefully, the efforts of the Bounty boat trip will help the Sheffield Institute foundation. I'm going to be busy for the next few weeks which includes appearing at the Southampton boat show and also doing many more public appearances. So maybe you could come down and meet me and Don down there on stand J018 where we are showing off the Bounty Boat herself. Anyway, lots to do and people to see. Mike