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To: FreedomCalls
I used to do restoration work on antique boats.

The techniques and materials to build a ship like that correctly have been lost to history and stupidity. This is a tragic loss of an irreplaceable artifact.

38 posted on 05/20/2007 10:42:51 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Duncan Hunter for President)
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To: Carry_Okie
I know. The convenience of storing flammables used for the restoration on the ship should never outweigh the cost of losing the ship.

I still wonder why they would need gas cylinders stored on board as most metal work would probably be done in shops, away from the ship, to prevent this very thing from happening.

41 posted on 05/20/2007 10:51:22 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Carry_Okie
The techniques and materials to build a ship like that correctly have been lost to history and stupidity. This is a tragic loss of an irreplaceable artifact.

I was in Baltimore a few years back, and was passing by the Pride of Baltimore (III?) while she was fitting out. She was beamy and stable, but not at all like the previous vessels. Of course, she probably will not capsize and sink, either.

Nobody would be crazy enough to put that much sail on a vessel so narrow anymore. There are better ways to get someplace fast. She was just too unsafe for modern standards. But it is the massive sail area over the narrow hull that made the ship so beautiful and conveyed the purpose of all-out crazy speed.

If a modern vessel were built to replace the Cutty Sark, it would just break your heart to see it.

72 posted on 05/21/2007 3:23:30 AM PDT by gridlock (On January 20, 2009, Fred Dalton Thompson will be sworn in as President of the United States.)
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