Following Challenges
Perham planned to take part in a challenge called the Bounty Boat Expedition, led by Don McIntyre, sailing a very small open boat without any navigational aids at all in the path of the small boat sailed by the crew from the mutiny on the Bounty in 1798. However, on 28 March 2010 Perham announced on his website that because of medical problems following a recent operation he wouldn't be fit enough to participate in the expedition.
Currently Perham plans to become the first and also the youngest person to both sail and fly solo around the world. He intends to take off during the summer of 2011 in Diamond Aircraft DA42NG. The record must comply with Fédération Aéronautique Internationale rules. The flight must start and finish at the same aerodrome, crossing all meridians and not be less than 19,864 nm (equal in length to the Tropic of Cancer).
Perham took part in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race 2011 as a crew member with Jessica Watson as skipper.
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