Thanks for the planks

Many thanks to our cousins in Devonport for their donation of £525 towards the replica Beagle. They had hoped to build a replica Beagle, but the local political and business opinioon were not in their favour, so they've decided celebrate Darwin and HMS Beagle in other ways. To them and to everyone who donated £35 towards a plank: many thanks. The funds will be used (as Devonport stipulated) for construction, not admin or any other use.

Devonport will see a replica Beagle for the Darwin 200 celebrations: we intend to make Devonport our first port of call after launch, and hope to see the Devonport people aboard. There is also talk of them bringing their 27 foot gig to Milford Haven for some rowing and racing. When the weather turns nice, it's a date. We have a gig of our own and rather fancy ourselves in the gig-racing stakes.