Captain Bligh's Bounty Boat adventure ends today in Kupang



9:10 PM Mon 14 Jun 2010 GMT
'Talisker Bounty Boat in Tonga' Talisker Bounty Boat Expedition 2010
All going well on their last day, Talisker Bounty Boat crew members (leader)Don McIntyre, Dave Pryce, David Wilkinson and Chris Wilde will arrive in Kupang this afternoon (Tuesday), completing their recreation of Captain Bligh's epic journey after his crew mutinied and set him adrift with some of his men. They built a replica boat, they took little food, and not even toilet paper, to try to replicate as closely as possible the original journey. They had near misses with reefs and islands, and a few time they had to resort to a GPS to get them out of trouble. 'Once ...


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by Des Ryan




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