Sail solo around the world
He did this in the 50ft racing yacht totallymoney.com, completing his journey on 27 August 2009. Perham's record was broken on 15 May 2010 by Jessica Watson (16 years, 362 days) from Australia in a non-stop, unassisted sail on Ella's Pink Lady; the record was broken again on 21 January 2012 by Laura Dekker, New Zealand, (16 years, 123 days) on Guppy.