Press - Mike in the media
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Sailing the dream - Book launch
Find out more about launch of 'Sailing the dream' at Transworld Press Centre
OCC Awards for Dee Caffari and Mike Perham
Friday, 22 January 2010
British yachtswoman Dee Caffari, the first woman to sail solo around the world both ways, and teenage solo circumnavigator Mike Perham are both recipients of the Ocean Cruising Club's prestigious Awards of Merit for 2009.
Dee Caffari from Southampton, first sailed around the world skippering a yacht in the 2004/5 BT Global Challenge, then completed the same ‘wrong way’ course against the prevailing winds alone in record time in 2006 aboard the yacht Aviva. In February last year she completed the gruelling 2008/2009, east-about Vendée Globe race, finishing in sixth position to set a second world record.
Meanwhile, 17-year-old Mike Perham from Potters Bar, returned to a heroes welcome at Portsmouth last August for becoming the youngest person to sail solo around the world, assisted and with stops.
Past recipients to be honoured with an Ocean Cruising Club (OCC) Award of Merit include fellow British sailors Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and Mike Golding, as well as Japanese circumnavigator Minoru Saito.
Mike Perham said: "I’m knocked out at winning this award, and to do so with Dee Caffari, one of my heroes, is the icing on the cake. I can’t wait to meet her at the awards dinner." Read more..
BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
The Youth Sport Trust has helped to shortlist ten finalists for this year’s BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year, which recognises Britain’s outstanding young sporting talent.
There were several dozen entries this year of very high calibre so it was a tough challenge for the judging panel to shortlist a top ten. The panel will meet again on 23 November to agree a top three and then vote in a secret ballot. Read more...
Mike's Ch4 documentary
Schoolboy who sailed the world...Read More
Perham's mutiny on the Bounty
Days after he became the youngest person to sail solo around the world, 17 year-old Mike Perham is about to embark on another daring expedition. Channel 4
'Remarkable' youngest solo world sailor honoured at Potters Bar Golf Club
3:33pm Wednesday 21st October 2009
THE youngest person to sail unassisted round the world was honoured at a special reception in Potters Bar on Saturday. Read more...
Michael Perham: on a wing and a prayer
Tarquin Cooper
Published: 12:00PM BST 15 Sep 2009
It was a cool 54F (12C) and blowing a nine-knot westerly breeze when the Open 50 yacht, Totallymoney.com, ghosted up the Derwent estuary into Hobart in the early hours of April 3. But it must have felt considerably warmer to the boat's skipper, Michael Perham, who had just navigated it across the Southern Ocean. Read more...
Teen Mike becomes ambassador for Prince's Trust
Mike Perham, the youngest person to sail solo around the world with stops and assistance, has become an ambassador for the Prince's Trust, the youth charity headed by HRH Prince Charles that helps young people fulfill their potential. Read more...
Sailing schoolboy becomes ambassador for Prince's Trust
Mike Perham, the youngest person to sail solo around the world, has become an Ambassador for the Prince's Trust, the British youth charity headed by HRH Prince Charles that helps change young lives. The 17 year old adventurer from Potters Bar, who took 9 months to circumnavigate the Globe and returned to Portsmouth at the end of August, made his first official engagement at a Sport United reception held at the Lord's Cricket Ground. Read more...
New challenge for record-breaking young sailor
By Elizabeth Barrett, Press Association Tuesday, 8 September 2009
A teenager who became the world's youngest solo circumnavigator today revealed his next challenge will be to help recreate the epic journey by those cast adrift after the mutiny on HMS Bounty....Read More
BBC
Hero's welcome for young sailor
Teenage sailor Mike Perham received a hero's welcome when he returned back to the UK after becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the world.