Hmmmm … sounds like a great excuse for a holiday across the pond.
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Coolness.
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Simply Stunning—The World Famous Cutty Sark After Its £50 Million Renovation [Past Perfect]
The Cutty Sark is kind of a big deal. It's the last tea clipper in existence and is considered a national maritime treasure by the British. So when she was badly damaged in a fire in 2007, the British government spent £50 million restoring her. These are the results.
Conservation of the Cutty Sark is among the most extensive ever taken on a historical ship. The ship suffered extensive damage in a fire that raged for hours before firefighters could bring it under control. The center of the shi…
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Having seen her in 2004 when she seemed to be dying, I was glad to hear they were going to restore her. The fire was a set back, but most of the important stuff was already removed. Her old situation in dry dock was rapidly deteriorating her hull – the new system for holding her looks great.
Guess I’ll have to go back to London – darn.
@Mary – If it’s too much of a burden or inconvenience, we’ll come along to hold your hand.
That's a beautiful ship. I can't help but to think about the sailors who took these ships to see. They certainly were hard core.
Couldn't pay me enough to do it as a career, back in the day. Even for the officers it was grueling.
I'm not sure about the time frame that a tea clipper was a common form of transport; but if you're up for it the Master & Commander series by Patrick O'Brian really gets into the nuts and bolts of life on a ship and the sort of people that chose that life. Hardcore indeed.
Aww gee do we have to go back to the UK and Wales?
~snort~
All i can say is make it so.
Thanks +Travis Cobb. I've always been fascinated with the Arctic explorers like Shackleton, Franklin, Amundson etc. In large part because the conditions these men endured are unimaginable by today's standard. Still, they went to sea. Amazing. I'll check out the series. From what I just read, it's sounds like it has many of the same elements.
I tried the O'Brian series, +Travis Cobb, and just couldn't get into it. On the other hand, I'm a huge fan of the C. S. Forrester "Horatio Hornblower" tales, which touches on a lot of the nuts and bolts, too.
It took a few chapters for me to really understand what the hell he was talking about. He starts off as if you know what a foc's'l is. Talk about an exercise in context clues! But once I got going I couldn't put it down.