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the life sciences editor of New Scientist magazine has contacted us asking to be kept up to date with Beagle developments. We certainly will, and in exchange recommend a daily glance at their Short Sharp Science Blog. A third TV production company is in discussion with us about proposing six half hour TV programmes centred about the Beagle, and we have been put in touch with a wine-maker in the island of Madeira. Their wine used to be matured in barrels stored in the holds of square riggers, and M. di Silva is keen to maintain the tradition. He'll give us a few barrels to cart around the world in Beagle's auspicious bowels. Once the barrels are returned to Funchal, the circumnavigatorial Beagle vintage (I like the sound of that) will be bottled and we'll get half to give away, sell or auction. And sample.
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Just come across your site and news of the Beagle Project. What a great idea. I am sure it will inspire kids to take an interest in Darwin in particular and science generally.
It reminds me of when I was a boy in England and someone built a replica of the Mayflower and sailed it across the Atlantic. I found it tremendously exciting and even remember making a model of the boat myself out of balsa wood. Must be my earliest memory related to sailing and America.
Now I live in the USA and spend as much time as I can sailing.
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