Talisker
Bounty Boat -
very first authentic re-enactment of Captain
Bligh's "Mutiny On The Bounty" journey.
On Friday April 9th, all eyes were on
four brave, adrenalin-fuelled
adventurers at the official launch of
the Talisker Bounty Boat expedition in
Sydney, Australia. The four-man
international crew, bound for remote
Tonga, where the voyage begins, bid
farewell to family and friends as they
prepared to set sail on the first ever
authentic recreation of one of the
greatest open boat voyages ever
undertaken.
The Captain of the Talisker Bounty Boat
is veteran adventurer and Australian Don
McIntyre who has carefully selected his
crew from countries around the world to
embark on one of the most extraordinary
stories of survival and sheer
determination: Captain William Bligh’s
4,000 mile open boat ‘Mutiny on the
Bounty’ voyage.
The courageous crew includes young Brit
Chris Wilde who won a global competition
to search for a successor following the
unexpected withdrawal of Mike Perham.
With less than a week’s notice, Chris
has left his friends, family and
creature comforts to undertake an
almighty yet exciting challenge on the
open seas.
The re-enactment of one of the most
iconic expeditions in nautical history,
following the journey across the Pacific
from Tonga to Timor, will start on the
same day (April 28th), at the same time
and in the same location 221 years after
the original mutiny journey. The crew
left Sydney on Friday to travel to the
starting point to begin the Expedition.
The seven week Expedition aboard the
Talisker Bounty Boat – a 25ft long, 7ft
wide, open wooden vessel – will see the
crew facing the same deprivations as the
original crew that were cast adrift in
the middle of the Pacific, including: no
navigation charts; only two weeks of
water; hardly any food; and a lack of
everyday luxuries such as a torch or
even toilet paper.
Alongside Don McIntyre and Chris Wilde
the international crew also includes
Australian Dave Pryce and experienced
English sailor, David Wilkinson.
Not content with just taking on this
huge challenge, McIntyre and the crew
are also attempting to raise over
$250,000 for The Sheffield Institute
Foundation for Motor Neurone Disease (SIF),
which is building the world’s first
research Institute into Motor Neurone
Disease (MND), Parkinson’s and
Alzheimer’s.
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