Who's Onboard?

Don McIntyre

53 year old Don McIntyre is one of Australia's most experienced sailors, having competed in the 1990 BOC Challenge Single-handed Around the World Yacht Race, coming second in class, the highest placing for an Australian at the time. He then embarked on numerous Antarctic sailing expeditions, including in 1995, living in a 2.4m X 3.6m box for a year, together alone in Antarctica, with his wife Margie, chained to rocks at Cape Dennison, the site of Sir Douglass Mawson’s Hut and an area called the Home of the Blizzard. Having been awarded an Australian Geographic Society silver medal for the Spirit of Adventure in 1993, Don and Margie were Awarded the Australian Geographic Society's highest...Read More >>

Mike Perham

MIKE PERHAM SIGNS ON!!

17 year old Mike Perham has signed on as second in comand of the Talisker Bounty Boat! Mike now holds the record as the world's Youngest Solo Circumnavigator, having sailed his Open 50 Totally Money around the world in 157 days, crossing the finish line on August 27th 2009. He also holds the record as the youngest solo Trans-Atlantic sailor at 14 years of age!

When Mike called into Hobart for repairs during his circumnavigation, he spent nearly five weeks living with Don & Margie McIntyre who assisted Mike with getting back on the road again...during the course of all that, Mike and Don had time to visit Jessica Watson (www.jessicawatson.com.au) who is about to set off on her bid to take Mike's Solo record away from him!
The McIntyre's bought the boat for Jessica and are major supporters of her Quest. When Mike heard about the Talisker Bounty Boat Expedition, his imagination began to run wild...so now he too will get close to Bligh.
Mikes profile, Blog and previous adventures are at www.challengemike.com.

David Wilkinson

An Englishman, David has made Asia his home for the last 17 years, sharing his time between Singapore and Hong Kong. Upon arriving in Hong Kong in 1993 he was immediately bitten by the bug of sailing and bought his first yacht in 1996, attracting media attention as a result of the challenging twelve day 500 mile sail across the South China Sea between Luzon in the Philippines and Hong Kong. For this new sailor and boat owner, beating for five days into Force 6 to 9 winds was wearisome, but taught him valuable lessons about boat safety over vanity and comfort!

A highly regarded Financial Coach and Investment Manager David can usually be found supporting his clients in achieving their Financial Goals. By taking this time out to participate in this adventure David fulfils a significant personal goal. Diagnosed of having a tumour early last year resulted in major surgery to remove and a firm promise from David to pursue life with passion! One day at a time!

David is a proud father of two lovely daughters, Lucinda and Isabelle

Peter Stier

53 years old, father of three

Hometown: Owns an 80 acre farm in rural Spring Valley, Minnesota, USA

Career: 10 years Electronics Engineering Specialist for a large electronics firm.

Opened my own business in 1994, Stier Steel Corp specializing in steel manufacturing for the door industry. We have customers all over the United States and Canada. I build all my own machines from ground up and enjoy coming up with innovative ideas to make parts better, faster and of higher quality.

Hobbies: Scuba Diving, Skiing, Sailing, Exploration, Singing, Sky Diving, Playing the Drums, Brewing Beer, Riding Motorcycles!

Volunteer: Became an Emergency Medical Technician in 2006 and volunteers for the Spring Valley Ambulance.

Notes: I have been an adventurer and have loved the sea from an early age. My first ideas of the sea came from Sea Shanties that I sang with family. Being land-locked in Minnesota proved to be a challenge to diving and sailing, but I began learning both on rivers and in lakes. I have sailed around the South Pacific for 4 plus months and have sailed in the Atlantic to the Bahamas and in the Gulf of Mexico. I have enjoyed diving and exploring the land and ocean whenever and wherever my travels have taken me. I believe in taking every opportunity to live and that lead me to be a part of this journey.

Stuart Kershaw

Stewart Kershaw is our fulltime Expedition Cameraman and reserve crew. He is an accomplished film maker and you can read all about him at www.expeditioncameraman.com plus see some of the trailers for the Talisker Bounty Boat DOCO on his Web site...go Films then click on us!

He will live with us 24/7 during training in Sydney and is then headed out to Tonga with us on April 11th for final Preps.Then he is on the camera boat that will follow us right to the start on April 28th then we are on our own.If any of the crew fall out for any reason at all Stu jumps on TBB.