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Is Mike planning to be the oldest person to day sail around the world?

I see form his site that 1) He is planning to go via the canal (which as I understand it means that his vougage does not count as a circumnavigation at all) and 2) I s planning yet anouth stop (this time in NZ).

Each stop is said to be because another bit is falling off the boat. There must be a massive contract dispute brewing behind the scenes!
 
On the other hand, this is really not the time of year to be in the Southern Ocean.

He's made a brave decision to risk his sponsor's ire, but it is probably the right one.
 
He's considering the panama canal, but if you look through the history, what he considers doing, he usually does (Canaries, Cape town, Hobart). Hobart was supposed to be a 48 hour stopover, and I think he was there just under a month. He's not had the greatest amount of luck, and started without time on his side, which is never a good time to go sailing. He has however sailed to the other side of the planet which is more than most have or will do in our lifetimes

He seems to be having a good trip, mounting biking, rock climbing, sight seeing, he's made it to far off places and getting someone else to pay for it..(Oh the irony of that coming from me!! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )

Fair play to him, he still has a long way to go though....and I'm not sure whether he'll be back before the 100 odd days he has to to beat Zac at this rate though...and once he's finished Jessica Watson will be off with her attempt to be the youngest, and if she doesn't get "the youngest" title, she could get the "youngest female" which no matter how hard mike tried, it's one he won't get
 
Good luck to Jessica. Australia is a much better place to start from, in my opinion. I mean a UK based circumnavigation is a bit like a trip round the Isle of Wight starting in Penzance.
 
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Good luck to Jessica. Australia is a much better place to start from, in my opinion.

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But to qualify, Jessica still has to cross the Equator twice like everyone else which means a long haul up and back down through the south Atlantic.

She launched her 34 foot yacht today (13th May).
 
I understood a circumnavigation to be a minimum great circle route of 21,600 miles and cross all lines of longitude plus the equator. So, canals or capes.....what difference does it make to the qualifying? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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LOL. A few months back they were slagging him off for being too young. Now they're slagging him off for being too old.

I'm 100pc behind him. He's having the time of his life and not hurting anyone. Shame there aren't more Mike Perham's around and less small minded snide critics.

Best if everyone reads about the trip in his own words:
http://www.totallymoney.com/sailmike/
 
While I'm still behind Mike, I think Jessica Watson has picked a better boat for the job, and a better self-steering setup.....

Great to see kids out there having a go!
 
Just because someone makes a critique, doesn't mean that they are small minded or snide!

Personally, I am getting a little tired of all the celebrity wannabe sailors that seem to be crawling out of the woodwork these days, with all their ballyhoo, and corporate sponsorship, which is simply to make money off the back of someone elses endevours

I much prefer the kind of person that just goes off and does it, modestly and quietly, without a load of [word removed] and razzamataz. Still I suspect I am in the minority in my opinion, and these days it seems that if you have a trumpet you have to blow it.........

Very loudly.
 
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Or the Pacific!
 
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I much prefer the kind of person that just goes off and does it, modestly and quietly, without a load of bullshit and razzamataz.

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Strange comment Crusty, I did not have you down as a supporter of the upper middle class elite. In effect you are calling for a return to the 1920's where adventures could only be afforded by those of private means.

How many paper rounds does it take to purchase an Open 50?
 
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He is planning to go via the canal (which as I understand it means that his vougage does not count as a circumnavigation at all)

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Ouch! That means an awful lot of people who have cruised around the world are going to be disappointed.

It puts me in mind of Joshua Slocum who arrived in South Africa where he was told by the president, a flat earther, that he had not sailed 'round' the world but 'in' it.
 
As usual, and all to often someone on these forums is putting words in my mouth and thoughts in my head......If you want to make a comment please make it in relation to all that I said, not just the bit that you think you can make a silly smart assed comment about.

To humour you a little, people have been making circumnavigations right up to the present day, without all the aforementioned razzamataz and bullshit, and also without being a member of a middle class elite. Next I suppose you will come back with something like, Oh yeah...who? well do your own googling. Did Mike Perham need an Ocean 60 to do a circumnavigation? No not really. The Perhams are not exactly short of a bob or two, so could probably have come up with a suitable boat at their own expense.

I am not attacking Mike Perham in particular, I am criticising the way things are done today, and I am neither small minded or being snide. I think it's a good thing for young people to go off and take on challenges, in whatever way they choose to do so, but the time to crow about it is when they have done it, not before, or even halfway through.
 
I'm with Chrusty on this one. Alec Rose was a greater inspiration to me than Francis Chichester and later Shane Acton. You dont need an open 50 and sponsorship to sail round the world as many people have proved. I would not like young people to think they need a huge boat and funding to undertake a sailing challenge. Please do read this as being anti MP in any way. I greatly admire what he is doing. It's just not the only way to do it.
 
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please make it in relation to all that I said...

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Your views on MP's sailing venture would have more credibility if occasionally you made a posting on the forum that demonstrated some experience of sailing. In your 1800 posts I cannot recall you ever making a comment on the practical substance of sailing or boating.
 
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So, canals or capes.....what difference does it make to the qualifying?

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The same thought occurred to me but on reflection I suppose being handled through the Panama locks might count as outside assistance.
 
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please make it in relation to all that I said...

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Your views on MP's sailing venture would have more credibility if occasionally you made a posting on the forum that demonstrated some experience of sailing. In your 1800 posts I cannot recall you ever making a comment on the practical substance of sailing or boating.

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What??? You've read them all then???......I am deeply flattered.

Silly twit!
 
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What??? You've read them all then???......I am deeply flattered.

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I'll take that as a confirmation of my suspicions.
 
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What??? You've read them all then???......I am deeply flattered.

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I'll take that as a confirmation of my suspicions.

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You can take it as whatever you like......fact is, I said in my post that I was not knocking Mike Perham......just the bandwagon way of doing things these days, to which, assuming that you actually read my posts, you have seemingly taken an objection.

Perhaps you are not actually reading and understanding what is written but indulging in the usual forum habit of interpreting things to either suit yourself, or so as to pick an argument?
 
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