Robert Cribbs
It was with great sadness that we received the news of the passing away of Robert Cribbs.
Professor Cribbs was a great friend of us here in London, and his influential work on astronomy
was of invaluable importance to our research. He was an amazingly talented man with a
remarkable brain and powers of application, but he was modest and witty - epitomised by his
lecture on longitude delivered at the Library of Congress on 16th May 2005. His talk that day
was peppered with jokes which brilliantly illustrated the complex theory in a way all the audience
could understand. He had us all spell-bound. He will be terribly missed by all our team here and
by the hundreds who came in contact with his research and whom he inspired.

Replica junk
We are pleased to report that the Princess Tai Ping, one of several replica Ming dynasty junk projects, safely reached San Diego in November 2008.
"... Roughly the size of a San Diego city bus, or about one-fourth of the length of the neighboring
ship Star of India, the 15th century style Chinese junk Princess Tai Ping has just sailed across
thousands of miles of northern Pacific Ocean and transcended six centuries of history to prove
a point.
Like Thor Heyerdahl's celebrated 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition, this voyage has attempted to show
that the ancient mariners did have the knowledge and skills to cross the Pacific Ocean..."
For more information please visit the following link: 
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20081122-1310-tai_ping.html