Ahoy, there’s mutiny in the air
NAKU’ALOFA – The crew of the Talisker Bounty Boat 2010 Expedition has arrived in Tonga to prepare for an historic voyage to re-create Captain William Bligh’s 48-day, 4000 mile ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ voyage from the Kingdom of Tonga to Timor.
The reenactment, following the journey across the Pacific to Timor, will launch on the same day, at the same time and in the same place 221 years after the original mutiny journey.
It was in April 1789 that the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ occurred just off the waters of the islands of Ha’apai in Tonga.
The story goes that, whilst in the Pacific, the Bounty crew was attracted to the idyllic life and was angered by the (alleged) cruelty of their commanding officer William Bligh.
Fletcher Christian and some of his followers led the mutiny and they tried to get Bligh to sail the Bounty back to Tahiti because they missed their Tahitian mistresses.
Bligh did not agree with the mutineers and he insisted they continue sailing to Australia.
Fletcher Christian and his followers then cast commanding officer William Bligh and Bligh’s loyal crew adrift in a boat near Tofua Island in Ha’apai.
Whilst Fletcher and the mutineers sailed to Pitcairn Island and settled there, Bligh and his men sailed for 48 days and 4000 nautical miles from Ha’apai to Kupang in Timor in an overloaded boat with little food or water and no charts.
The Talisker Bounty Boat 2010 Expedition, which will launch on April 28, is raising funds for the Sheffield Institute for Motor Neurone Disease.
The Tonga Visitors Bureau (Ministry of Tourism) and the Tonga tourism community are sponsors of the historic expedition.
Ian Jarrett
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