Mike Perham still on target

Mike Perham, the teenager has covered more than 1,000 miles in his mission to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the Globe alone. He is now off the Florida coast.



He and his Open 50 yacht Totallymoney.com left Panama last Tuesday, but says he has not been able to sleep for more than two hours a day, sometimes down to one and never longer than 15 minutes at a time. This is because he has to stay alert for fear of being run down by one of the many ships that are following the same route between Panama and the East Coast of the US. At times he has reported over 20 ships on his radar. On Sunday Mike said in his blog, 'The main thing is to be safe. The traffic has picked up a lot this evening - in the last hour I've had three ships pass within a few miles.'

Source:Sailing-World