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Welcome to the Talisker Bounty Boat Ebay auction for the Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience
What does the Talisker Bounty Boat expedition represent?
Don McIntyre and his crew made history this year when they followed in the footsteps of Capt. William Bligh who was cast adrift from HMS Bounty in the Pacific on April 28th, 1789. They boarded their 25ft ‘Talisker Bounty Boat’ in the same position exactly 221 years to the day of the Bounty Mutiny. They first set sail to Tofua to find extra food and water, before heading westwards across the top of Fiji and the Vanuatu Island groups, bound for the Queensland Coast, Australia to land, like Bligh, on Restoration Island. They then sailed north inside the Great Barrier Reef to Thursday Island, and then through the Torres Strait to Kupang and Timor.
This was the first time that anyone completed the same voyage in the same way that Bligh did. Previous attempts in 1983 and 1990 both used almanacs and charts for navigation, torches, modern timepieces, and also made unscheduled stopovers, did not follow the same route or were escorted part of the way. McIntyre’s crew had no charts, no almanacs, modern timepieces or navigation equipment, torches, or toilet paper. The expedition’s purpose was to raise money for the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience.
What is the Sheffield Institute of Transitional Neuroscience?
SITraN, is a world-class research centre lead by Professor Pam Shaw who, with her team of nearly 100 international scientists is working towards solving the mysteries of MND – one of the world’s most under researched diseases for which currently there is no cure and very low options of treatment. SITraN has been working tirelessly over the last few years to raise funds needed to build the Sheffield Institute Foundation (SIF) and finance it for the first five years. It will be the first of its kind in Europe and will continue to grow and develop in to a pioneering Institute attracting first class scientists from around the World.....More
