Melbourne - London By Sea Ray Amphibian.

[Valdiviano]

Brilliant, well written blog, look forward to a book.
Congratulations Michael

[Aussie Bob]

There is talk of a book

There is also a movie, I saw it last night and it is well worth seeing. A remarkable achievement without sponsorship, charity raising or fanfare. A circumnavigation of the globe at 80 knots in a floating ultralight.

[Bull at a Gate]

Extract from his forthcoming book in today's Sydney Morning Herald.

Seaplane pilot Michael Smith: the moment an Aussie driving habit nearly killed me

[Frontal Lobotomy]

Just saw the movie on Virgin inflight. A great story.

[Aussie Bob]

Nice to see he just did it as opposed to running a massive media campaign.

Totally agree. Some guy decides to jump in a small flying boat and fly to England at 80 knots - no biggie. The fact that when in England it was too hard to freight the thing home and he just decided to continue on to the US, Canada, the arctic circle, Japan and then back to Australia make this flight just about equal to anything that has been achieved since Orville and Wilbur took to the skies. Sure, it has all been done before in bigger faster things but in a Searey at 80 is pretty special

[compressor stall]

I too saw it yesterday on Virgin in flight. Very impressive flight with little fanfare.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

On Radio New Zealand National's Nine to Noon this morning, Kathryn Ryan interviewed Michael Smith who flew around the world in a small, two-seat amphibian flying-boat, following the old Imperial Airways and Pan American Airways flying-boat routes. Michael has written a book, “Voyage of the Southern Sun” and also produced a documentary film of the same name on BluRay and DVD.

• Michael Smith: around the world in a flying boat

I understand the book and documentary are being released this week.

You can order both from the website Voyage of the Southern Sun (AU$49 for the book; AU$70 for the book and DVD; AU$75 for the book and BluRay).