[ccmay]

I saw this ship before she burned. Most impressive. Glad to see it was restorable.

[unkus]

Cutty Sark....... A beautiful, strong name.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“I saw this ship before she burned.”

I first visited Greenwich and the Cutty Sark in 1979. In 1993 I visited Greenwich and the Cutty Sark on a trip to England with my father, who was then 90 yrs young. I have a brass key ring fob that I got on my ‘93 visit to the Maritime Museum. Impressive.

Gipsy Moth IV, the 54 foot yawl that Sir Francis Chischester sailed single handed around the world in 1967 was also there at Greenwich, dry-docked, alongside Cutty Sark. Sir Francis followed the clipper ship route, around the Horns, with a stop in Sydney.